Work stress & Work-life balance blog
A new study conducted at the University of California, Irvine titled "A Pace not Dictated by Electrons" has found that using email has a tendency to cause more stress.
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You've just finished another week at the office. You're stressed out from the politics and conflict that happened there all week. You reach out to your friends. Online, by phone, or in person. You immediately start complaining about your work: stupid boss, incompetent co-workers, idiot clients, et cetera.
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With Data Privacy Day coming up on January 28th, we take another look at how you can safeguard your digital reputation while using Rate My Workday to manage your stress at work in an online social network.
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Laughter has a lot of benefits. It makes us feel good. Since it's Monday, I thought it would be nice to start the week off with a satirical look at our work lives and how our work week evolves from Monday through Friday. Watch these Hoops and Yoyo videos and get some practice laughing the stress away.
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Employers need to look outside the traditional office setting to create an engaged, productive workforce. In general, employees want to be aligned with their employers on a range of issues. This is the theme of Sodexo's 2012 Workplace Trends Report. My interest in the report lies in the benefits and consequences of these trends for employees in the workforce.
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In response to a post at Jobacle.com entitled '10 ways to Manage Stress at the Office'. We look at some ways to easily manage stress while you are still at work, and deal with workplace stress before it builds up.
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When you last applied for a new job, did you think to check how your Facebook page looks to the general public? When was the last time you Googled yourself? What did you find? Did you look at it objectively?
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Research by the Stress Research Institute in Stockholm has shown that bottling-up your anger and not expressing it can increase your risk of experiencing a heart attack. Men who suppress their anger at work are two-to-five times more likely to experience a heart attack or exhibit other cardiovascular symptoms.
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