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If your employees want to take a longer lunch break to hit the gym, you should let them. You’ll be getting more than enough out of them in the afternoon to make up for the lost time. From the FastCompany post Working Out Doesn’t Just Make You Stronger, It Makes
I’ve just started a new part time contract with an agency I’ve worked with before but with people whom I haven’t worked with prior to this. It’s a lovely team and we’re working together across disciplines already from the first stages of the project. Just the way I prefer to
There is a lot of talk and opinions around going offline when you’re on holiday. Some say you have to. Some say they need to and some say they don’t want to. What ever stand you’re in there seems to be an opinion about it.
For work and life situations much inspiration can be taken from Sport. Many of the athletes who are competing here have been training for years and to make it all the way requires not only talent but real dedication and a massive support team who can help you along the
A couple of years back we were over in Sweden and I needed something to wear for New Years Eve dinner. I didn’t find any shoes I really liked and ended up buying an ok pair just so I had something to wear. Yesterday I wore them and with every
When it comes to work there is only so much you can stretch yourself. Only so long your motivation can remain high. When your own choices and priorities take a hit as a result, that motivation needs to work even harder and sometimes it will run out. All together.
You might wonder why I whilst working full time at the moment and on byflock and our current products start mentioning another idea yesterday. You’d think that I would have enough on my plate as it is. Maybe, but not quite.
On Monday the news spread about Marissa Meyer being appointed CEO of Yahoo!. Then that she was pregnant. To this combination some have asked why it should be news, or why it should even be a good thing as surely it would mean she’ll take less maternity leave.
We’ve all been there, be it a high risk situation at work that’s gotten worse, conversations or relationships taking a destructive turn in tone and attitude, or as in my case during the weekend, going from feeling good to not so well.
Back in January on D’s birthday I wrote a post about celebrations and how we should celebrate achievements and foster a working environment that does just that. But also a working culture that encourages people to share and be proud of their own personal achievements.
Over the last few months I’ve heard myself saying ‘I have to do…’ a number times. Mostly outside of work but still related to work. Out of all of the things I’ve said ‘I have to’ about, the majority would not be considered real have to’s. But that’s how I’ve
Many of us spend longer in the office than what our contracts state. Over time these hours add up to something a lot larger than the extra hour here and there. When we say we don’t have time outside of work the likelyhood is that we do. It’s just that
Hourly wages and the classic 40-hour work week have trained us to measure our labor by the number of hours we log. However, this mindset is dead wrong when applied to today’s professionals. […] smart leaders realize that the only way they can succeed is by getting the most out
One of the things driving us at byflock is creating a working environment where you want to work and be involved. It’s as much about the workplace itself as the culture that surrounds it.
I’ve been noticing the way the space I’m working in affects the way I work. I’ve always known it made a difference… […] I wish more of us worked in designed spaces. Spaces with variety – with openness for sharing and more enclosed spaces for thinking. Spaces for individuals to
Today it’s my birthday. When I was a kid our parents made a big thing out of birthdays. We’d go to bed the night before excited about waking up in the morning with that special feeling of ‘it’s my birthday‘. It’s some of my fondest childhood memories and this is
No matter who I speak to everyone, irrespectively of profession come across some frustrations at work. Just as easy as it is to get worked up over these things, just as easy is it to forget that when all is said and done, it’s just work.
Yesterday we went for lunch in Chiswick and over in a used book shop D found a book for me and called me over to read a couple of pages.
Every now and then you do something or reach a place that gives you that feeling that everything is ok. That what ever trouble you might have had, it’s gone. In those moment nothing but right now matters.
I never cared much or was very good at the dating game. If I liked someone I’d text when I felt like it. If they didn’t respond or played the game with me, then I delete them from my mind.