How to promote good mental health within the workplace
#Doyoumind? It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week-a week centred around education and raising awareness of mental illness. In respect of this week, we’ve compiled a list of tips you can use within your daily lives. Whether you’re at home or work, an employee or an employer. These tips are sure to help promote positive mental health, wherever […]
How to keep cool at work in Summer (without air-con)
It’s taken a while to arrive, but Summer is finally here, and the sun has graced us with an appearance! It’s the season for shorts, sunglasses and sandals, but what if you’re stuck in the office without a single air-con unit in sight? Very quickly, dreamy tropical climates can become spaces of stuffy and sticky […]
How to reduce workplace stress and its affects
Work, it can be a great source of pride and joy when you’re doing what you love, but it can also be a large contributor of anxiety and stress in our lives. Roughly half a million people in the UK suffer with work related stress and every individual affected by work-related stress lost an average […]
5 effective tips for spring cleaning your office
The long-awaited Spring season has finally made an appearance! Once shudderingly cold commutes have been replaced with warmer, milder mornings and the warmer weather is a signal it’s time to clear out the make-shift hibernation holes. Cleaning the office may seem like a big task, but with these simple tips, you’ll have a sparkling clean […]
Five ways office setups affect employee wellbeing
74% of UK employees state they aren’t happy with their current offices, which is, perhaps, telling, considering 45% of all UK working days are lost due to ill health caused by stress. Considering UK employees have the longest working week in the EU, averaging at 42.3 hours, it’s important that the environments they work in are safe, welcoming and collaborative, […]
Top tips for staying safe while working in winter
The warm touch of bright summer mornings and evenings have been replaced with autumn’s colder grasp. Bright & warm mornings/evenings have been substituted with cold, dark ones and the welcoming summer glow has transitioned into a welcoming committee of frosted car windows and icy pavements. As we transition from Autumn slowly into Winter, the change […]