National Employee Wellness Month: The Companies That Prize Wellbeing Over Burnout
This week, Arianna Huffington, HuffPost’s founder and CEO, has brought her new book Thrive to the UK. And if we all try to live by her Third Metric ethos, we need to start looking at the world of work a…
I applaud companies offering yoga at work
This last couple of weeks I’ve been covering for a yoga teacher friend of mine Lucy Bannister while she’s been away teaching a retreat. She’s let me loose on some of her corporate yoga classes – classes that are offered…
Present tense: stress in the workplace
Long hours, mountainous workloads, combative cultures – stress is part of lawyering. But are firms doing enough to help people manage it, or is their talk of help programmes just hot air? The law can be a stressful profession. This…
25 Easy Tips to Enhance Your Well-being at Work
1. Ditch your chair and sit on a Swiss ball instead – strengthen your core while you toil. 2. Drink lots of water throughout the day for clear skin and flushing the digestive system. 3. Switch from coffee to green…
The Intersection Of Education And Yoga
As a teacher more than a decade ago in inner-city Houston, every day I saw children come to school angry and frustrated — traumatized by violence, hungry or scared, but without the words to express their emotions and focus on…
Finding Love on the Job
The headline blared “Why You Hate Work.” The New York Times article in the Sunday Review was about issues such as lack of work satisfaction, authenticity, employee engagement, freedom and leadership — things on which Jamie and I have built…
Landlords getting in the wellness business to sweeten deal for corporate tenants
Outdoor conference rooms. Employee fitness centers. Workplace health fairs and kitchens stocked with healthy snacks. The latest wellness tactics by a Washington employer? Nope. It’s the landlord. With amenities like attractive lobbies or ample parking no longer good enough, employee…
Dear Prudence: A Portrait Of Prudence Farrow Bruns
A portrait of Prudence Farrow Bruns, the inspiration for the Beatles song “Dear Prudence”, in which she discusses the benefits of Transcendental Meditation.
6 Ways to Save Your Life — and Your Company
Your employer is putting you in harm’s way. In fact, you can’t smoke cigarettes fast enough to match the damage that today’s workplace is doing to you. And not just you, but everyone from the newest hire to your CEO.…
Unemployed? 12 Legit Ways Fitness Can Help You Cope and Land the Job You Want
The millennial generation is stressed about unemployment—and rightly so. According to the United States Labor Department, 16.1 percent of millenials, also known as Gen Y (or young adults born between the years 1980 and 2000), are unemployed, while a Harvard…