We LOVE Yoga!! You Should Too!
Here at CosMedics, we LOVE yoga! Kenna Kaklin, our wonderful Yoga Instructor joins us twice a week during our lunch hour to guide us through a practice designed just for us! We look forward to this every week and look…
Tackling staff stress key focus for employers, finds survey
Health and well-being schemes top HR strategy to combat stress More organisations are addressing workplace stress by using health and well-being programmes to increase employee engagement, according to a Towers Watson study. Four in ten employers already have stress management…
Yoga Offers Insights on Employee Health
CFOs shouldn’t discount the effectiveness of programs aimed at fostering worker wellness just because the advantages aren’t noticeable at the surface level, an HR professor argues. Most of us, when we think of yoga, envision those implausible poses shown in…
Bring a Yogic Attitude to your Work and Find Satisfaction in your Job
In her 30s, my neighbor Gretchen staked her life on the mantra, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” She left a corporate job to try making her living as a writer, something that felt more in line…
5 Yogic Tips to Tackle Stress at Work
Imagine trying to strike some work life balance in the middle of Times Square. Just a few weeks ago I was hanging with prolific authors Victoria Pynchon and Maseena Ziegler (both friends and Forbes contributors) doing just that. It was…
Workplace Wellness Takes the Lead for Stress Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness month launches on Capitol Hill this week, as healthcare, business and agency chiefs recognize National Workplace Wellness Week with a number of panel discussions. Coincidentally or not, when the recession hit in the career chaos economy of…
Why Your Company Should Have More ‘Slackers’
Devoting less work time to work by shoring up workers’ emotional health through techniques like yoga and meditation can give productivity a shot in the arm. CFOs make all kinds of investments, but how about investing in more down…
4 firms recognized for putting healthy spin on work
It may be no surprise that a company’s values and its corporate culture can have a huge impact on the level of stress of its employees. But the American Psychological Association’s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program has provided some great examples of this theory in action. The APA awarded its 2013 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards to four companies who demonstrated, through their programs and culture, that they valued their employees.
A Moment of Zen, on the Go
Ed Michael Reggie, a health care executive from New York, is even more devoted to his yoga practice on the road than he is at home. Mr. Reggie, who spends 30 percent of his time traveling domestically for business, says…
Yoga Keeps Indiana CPA Firm Fit, Flexible, Focused
Like most CPA firm employees pressing through a grueling tax season, Jennifer Miller, administrative assistant for the tax team at Somerset CPAs in Indianapolis, Indiana, spends most of her day hunched over her desk, processing “needed-it-yesterday” e-mails, and shuffling back and forth between…