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As the Boss, You Can Reduce Work Stress in the Office

As the Boss, You Can Reduce Work Stress in the Office

Work stress can adversely affect your organization. It can increase absenteeism, decrease work commitment from your staff, increase staff turn-over, impair your group’s performance and productivity, increase unsafe working practices and accident rates, increase complaints from clients and customers, increase liability to legal claims and actions [...]
Workplace Bullying is a Health Issue

Workplace Bullying is a Health Issue

According to Brooks (2000), workplace incivility translates to operational expenses for a business organization. The phenomenon goes through an entire downturn process that can be ugly for the company. There are victims of workplace incivility who suffer from stress, paranoia, anxiety, embarrassment, and fatigue. These may cause sleeplessness that, [...]
Stress: Work-Life Imbalance

Stress: Work-Life Imbalance

When life and work become too cumbersome, we experience the manifestations of stress. The effects of work stress on individuals affect different people in different ways. The experience of work stress, for instance, can cause inferior performance at work, deteriorate physical health, contribute to poor mental functioning, and produce dysfunctional [...]
Insomnia Costs More than Your Puffy Eyes

Insomnia Costs More than Your Puffy Eyes

Contrary to what we might think, insomnia is far more destructive than just the irritation that people who have sleepless nights feel. A new scientific research has found that the indirect costs of untreated insomnia are far more than the costs of its requisite medications. The indirect costs outweigh the direct costs of treatment. In Quebec, Canada, [...]