By Olive Keogh — 2019
Mid-sized companies with happy working environments have 46% less staff turnover, 19% lower sick leave costs, and 12% greater productivity
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Being laid off can be a financial nightmare, but what isn’t talked about enough is the psychic toll it takes, and the decisions we make around work in the aftermath.
Quick: What sounds more fun? Filling in spreadsheets with data for eight hours or coming up with new and exciting ideas?
Making yourself inaccessible from time to time is essential to boosting your focus.
Rather than looking to the usual sources for life hacks — you know, famous CEOs, world leaders, cult leaders — It’s time to look to a profession that often gets a tough rap (yet requires more grit and determination than most): Artists.
Creative agencies thrive when the people who work there are in a healthy state of mind.
Here are 3 tips that I personally found working for me to becoming more productive and produce work at a higher level without distractions or noise from everything that surrounds us.
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Our tendency to work too much is neither arbitrary nor sinister: it’s a side effect of the haphazard nature in which we allow our efforts to unfold.
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It’s not very different from falling out with your spouse or best friends, says Kira Nurieli, CEO of Harmony Strategies Group, a dispute-resolution and crisis-management firm.