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Burned out on your job? You may have a higher risk of heart disease. A new study from Tel Aviv University linked job burnout with coronary heart disease (CHD), a buildup of plaque in the arteries which can lead to heart attacks and other heart problems. More
For almost two years, I’ve been working as a freelance writer and editor. Which means, aside from getting to largely be my own boss (and accounting department, and health care provider, and PR team), I also get to work from home, which really is great. But recently, I started actually going into a real business establishment regularly–and I was reminded of the single biggest home office perk: Avoiding cold and flu season almost entirely. More
Ladies, here’s a tip from British department store Debenham’s: Instead of wasting time trying to boost your resume with volunteer work and internships, what you really need to do is get thee to a nail salon. Because according to a survey of 2,000 people who had previously been in charge of hiring someone, it’s your “beauty blunders,” like split ends and botched tans, that are costing you work. And not, you know, the fact that women are unfairly expected to be bastians of perfect grooming. More
Arianna Huffington was right. Napping does make everything better. This image from DailyInfographic.com now shows you all the positive effects napping has on one’s work performance and health in general. More
According to a new study, women in the top echelons of law, medicine and business are very good at losing weight. According to the official figures, they are the only social group to lose weight in the past 15 years while everyone else is growing fatter. Well that is good but there motivation for keeping themselves thin is not. These women keep themselves thin because they know they are still judged on their appearance rather than skill. More
I don’t want to alarm you, but in case you haven’t heard by now, your conventional office chair is probably killing you as you read this. Sitting is so dangerous that one Mayo Clinic doctor calls its effects — heart disease, diabetes, death — “sitting disease.” Standing burns three times as many calories as sitting, and extra gym time can’t make up for that. Your chair is a slow-moving death trap. But the increasingly popular standing desks aren’t for everyone. (Admit it: They sound kind of exhausting!) So one designer has come up with the contraption you see here: A standing desk fitted with a small tilted leather seat meant for leaning, not sitting or standing. More
Forget the 40-hour work week: for many working professionals, 80+ workweeks are not only common but expected and deeply entrenched into their companies’ culture. And, as anyone who’s ever run their own company or worked at a startup can tell you, it’s not just lawyers and investment bankers who are doing the hard time at the office. And it’s not just at the office: many working professionals leave their offices and go home – only to open their laptops at the dinner table and work into the wee hours of the night remotely.
So how do these overworked souls deal with hours and hours of work? Ten overextended workers weigh in on their de-stressing mechanisms, from channeling their inner rock star to pole dancing in the office. More
Sometime within the last few weeks, eating lunch away from one’s desk suddenly became the cool thing to do. Arianna Huffington challenged her staff at the Huffington Post to eat lunch away from the office. McDonald’s launched an ad campaign promoting the joys of leaving the office to eat, “free from the fear of crumbs in our keyboards.” A woman who lived in France for four years wrote a wildly popular article for Slate about why America should embrace the “long, leisurely lunch hour.” But optimistic ads and news stories about trendy offices ignore the fact that for many of us, eating lunch at our desks is a way of life. Here are eight stories from hard-working employees (and business owners!) who aren’t falling for the latest fad. Meet the military recruiter who’s getting sick of reheated leftovers, the woman who worked six days a week in order to avoid taking lunch breaks, and the guy who hasn’t eaten lunch away from his desk in 20 years. More
The above is a quote from actress Portia De Rossi’s memoir, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, on her struggles with both anorexia and bulimia. Though she explains she had always struggled with eating disorders, when she worked on the show Ally McBeal in the late 90′s, her battle with food reached its peak. At her worst, she was down to 82 pounds and collapsed on a film set. Yes, Portia was working in an industry that is very focused on looks and she was on a show that featured some of the skinniest actresses in the business at a time when being as thin as possible was becoming the new requirement for actresses, but this job triggered her bulimia. With it being National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, we wondered if the pressures and stress of most jobs can be a bulimia trigger. More
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Karnataka, India is the home of a women’s-only engineering college, GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women. In order to prepare students to face this very competitive industry it is encouraging them to take up yoga. The institute believes soft skills like these will help these women be more employable. Being able to deal with stress calmly is certainly a very employable trait.
In 2007, the college constructed a meditation hall, it was conceptualized as an add-on facility to help the students ease out academic stress. The facility is now being used to accustom the girls to handle stressful situations, thus increasing their employability. More
What busy career woman doesn’t need a little pampering on the side? And why not indulge in a little pampering that helps your appearance? In a new series for The Financial Times called “Women In Finance,” Snjezana Maclean, an image consultant, said image is integral to a person’s “brand.” And according to a Newsweek survey, 59% of hiring managers advised investing as much time and money on your appearance as you would crafting your résumé. But then again, you don’t want to spend every free moment you have casing crowded make-up counters for the best products without breaking the bank.
Watch out small business owners. Your work may be causing you to get fat and irritable. Small businesses are doing well this year but it may be at the risk of their owners’ health, according to new research. The latest Manta SMB Wellness Index shows that new business activity was up more than 12% in the third quarter of 2011, compared to the same time last year.But almost half of respondents (44%) say this year’s business climate has taken a toll on their personal health–one in three say they work out less, 22% say they’ve gained weight and 14% say they are more short-tempered and argue with family and co-workers. More
Your work/life balancing act may have just gotten a little bit easier. According to a recent article in The New York Times style section, bringing clients to the gym may be the newest trend in business. The article by Courtney Rubin featured interviews with a number of people that look at doing a spin class or a boxing match with a client as the ultimate icebreaker. “People love it if they can get in a workout and check networking off the list at the same time,” said Trish Gubiotti Lynn, an advertising account director for Yahoo. More
If you’re tired of feeling tired all the time (both physically and mentally), as well as particularly stressed out with no energy level to speak of, I may just have the answer for you. Or rather, Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., author of the new book The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Healthy, and Life may just have the answer for you. (And guess what? The answer is not balance!) This book is no pretentious meditation on the concept of fatigue: It’s a practical, no-nonsense guide filled with concrete tips on how to make your life better. And what could be better than that? (Besides feeling less fatigued, of course, and Dr. Clever also helps us with that dilemma.) The Fatigue Prescription is an interactive workbook both because of the way it’s laid out, and because I’m in the process of making it work for me. You should, too. But in the meantime, check out my Q&A with Dr. Clever about some of the finer points in her book: More
