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Having commuted to London from a small town in Kent for many years, I recently found myself looking into finding myself a place to stay in the city during the week rather than doing the exhausting journey twice a day, especially with the continuing decline of the quality of the rail service - I felt […]

According to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, “flex-time is the most popular alternative work schedule offered by the responding companies, with two-thirds of the companies offering such a benefit.” As well, a new University of Illinois study reports “that the mother’s education is the most important factor, followed by her employment […]

Circumstances regularly change both in our daily lives, and in our business. This means the amount of work we are able to take on, and the way we approach it will also change from time to time.
The first situation in which we may have to turn down work is that of ill health, either […]

If your business is not doing as well as you would like it to be then odds are you are lacking a defined goal. Once you have established your goal you need two key elements to achieve your goal, a date and a strategic plan. It would be nice if we could wish things into […]

Business owners often fall prey to some of these common timewasters. Online business owners can be especially susceptible to the Internet-inspired time traps.
Email: personal email
Everyone gets personal email just like they get letters in the mail at their homes. Hopefully you do not bring your personal mail to your workspace and open it. Do the […]

As life gets faster and faster, workloads get bigger and longer. Many professionals - whether they work for an employer or for themselves - are finding that there are too many projects to do and not enough time to complete it all.
Feeling the time crunch and not accomplishing everything that you want to leads […]

Managing stress is complicated because not only are there different types of stress, but each has its own characteristics, symptoms, treatments, and intensity.
Acute stress is the most common type. You recognize it when your computer goes blank, you are on deadline, and your heart starts beating rapidly. You relish it when a new client […]

Few of us are fortunate enough to be completely free of anxiety, the depression, even the pain that full blown stress can bring to our lives. Unfortunately, redirecting a business or solo practice causes us to maneuver ourselves into demanding and uncertain situations that results in our bodies priming for battle.
Stress is what we feel […]

One of the biggest reasons that so many people fail when working at their home business is that it is highly unstructured unlike a typical employment or education facility.
Although one of the greatest and most celebrated benefits of working at home is the fact that you do not need to use an alarm clock, one […]

Since 1950, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have had a shared definition of the meaning of occupational health.
In 1950 the definition was adopted by the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its first session in 1950 and they updated it 1995. The definition reads: “Occupational health should […]