Survey On Workplace Wellness Points To Productivity
A recent survey of corporate real estate executives at large corporations conducted by CoreNet Global and CBRE Group, Inc. found that when a company focuses on employee health and wellness, workers report increases in engagement, retention rates increase, and absenteeism…
Downward Dog, Upward Productivity: 4 Ways Yoga Can Improve Your Work Performance
Last year, in an effort to become healthier in both mind and body, I made a resolution to practice more yoga. Yoga is known to have a number of health benefits; it improves flexibility, builds muscle strength and boosts the…
Health Risks From Sitting Still
Sitting might be killing you, even if you get in a daily dose of moderate or intense exercise. Research is mounting that hours of sitting is its own health-risk factor. Sitting Still Risks Found Sitting Raises Risk of Type II…
How to Bring Mindfulness to Your Organisation
Mindfulness in the workplace is gaining staying power and credence, backed by a growing body of research and data demonstrating the positive results of practicing mindfulness. Companies such as Intel, PWC, McKinsey, and AstraZeneca, as well as other organisations like…
Watch 3 Quick Tips for Doing Yoga on the Road
Make sure to stay active while travelling, here are 3 quick tips for doing yoga on the road. Yogi and author Elena Brower shares her tips for keeping up with your yoga routine while travelling. From: Conde Nast Traveler Save…
Yoga at Work
About 15 Novartis employees pad silently into a dimly lit fitness studio on the pharmaceutical giant’s East Hanover campus. Most have changed out of their business attire and into loose clothing, but their minds are anything but relaxed. It’s the…
How Workplace Wellness Drives Healthy Business
A fascinating report from the WorkPlace Wellness Alliance – created by the World Economic Forum and now led by the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) — “identifies key themes, trends, and solutions from the expanding worldwide work place wellness movement.”…
Is 200 Hours Enough to Teach Yoga?
The proliferation of 200-hour yoga teacher trainings may be good for business, but is it keeping the practice safe and true to tradition? In 2015, Mandy Unanski Enright decided this was the year she’d become a yoga teacher. The practice…
How Specsavers staff are benefiting from in-house yoga sessions
FEELING valued and listened to at work is something most people would put at the top of their list of expectations from their employers. And making sure staff are happy and productive can have huge benefits for employers. That’s the…
Workplace Wellness Is Good for You, and for the Bottom Line
When Warren Buffett sees trends, people pay attention. Such was the case in the early 1990s, says David Hunnicutt, when Buffett and other Nebraska-based CEOs decided that workplace wellness deserved a closer look. They founded the Wellness Council of America…