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Tag: Wellness

  • Handling the Clash of Parenting and Work in a Pandemic [Video]

    Handling the Clash of Parenting and Work in a Pandemic [Video]

    Last week I had a chance to bring together an amazing panel to talk about how to support parents in a challenging work environment. This conversation featured: Donielle Buie, HR leader in charge of employee wellbeing at the Broad Institute Shana Sweeney, CHRO of SugarCRM Jonathan Corke, marketing leader at Bright Horizons In the video…

  • Office Workplace Health Risks: Computers, Screens, Sitting, and More

      In the digital world we live in, we spend a TON of time work on computers and mobile devices. Screens aren’t just part of our work life–they are how we interact with most people during the course of the workday. This isn’t a natural experience for us and it’s now how we were designed…

  • The Biggest Sleep Study in History Uncovered this Chilling Fact About Us

    The Biggest Sleep Study in History Uncovered this Chilling Fact About Us

    Recently I caught a story on Yahoo Finance about the analysis of more than six billion nights of sleep data released from FitBit. We all think about sleep in almost abstract terms–I sleep or I don’t, I’m sleepy or I’m not, etc. But this has a real, tangible effect on how we operate as humans…

  • Financial Wellness Benefits: Employers are the Employee Financial Lifeline

    Wellness as an employee benefit has expanded in the last year or two to include more than just the physical aspect–it now wraps in financial, emotional, and other types of wellness as well. That’s a good thing, because 68% of workers rely on their workplace coverage for their families’ financial security, according to the Guardian Workplace…

  • The Company Sanctioned (and Sponsored) Addiction

    Today’s post is a personal one about my recent experience quitting caffeine and all of the associated side effects. Not so much about HR, but definitely an interesting look at the experience! One month ago I quit caffeine. My main delivery method was diet cokes (that’s soda for those of you outside the Southeastern United States).…

  • Your Employees are Struggling with this Personally

    If I told you that 76% of your employees were stressed about something, wouldn’t you want to know what was going on? I mean, after all, when I’m stressed about something, I am usually not very “together” when it comes to critical thinking and other complex tasks. You know where I’m going with this, right?…

  • 401k savings plans are (not) for suckers

    The other day my buddy Laurie posted about 401k plans being for “suckers.” After reading her comments and those of some of her audience, I felt led to respond. Here’s a snippet: Some HR professionals are horrified by the way you manage your money, but I feel your pain. You can’t squeeze blood out of…