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Keeping employees safe on the job is the best way to reduce your company’s insurance premiums. The fewer workplace injuries that occur, the lower your premiums will be. Also, if an injury does occur, getting the employee back on the job quickly will help you keep your premiums from going up too much. Lone worker solutions are necessary if you are serious about reducing your premiums. Find how these solutions will keep your lone workers safe and your premiums low.
It is a pretty common phrase that health is wealth, and although it might be just something that a lot of people say, there is so much truth to it. Without good health, there are so many things that we would be unable to do. You are likely to be unable to work, or at least work less, chores and family life can become tough when you’re unwell, in and out of hospital, or bedridden. We all know that one of the main reasons that people have gained weight or have gotten out of shape is through being unwell, or not having the time or energy to do the things that are needed to be healthy. This is so true for many, but especially for busy working professionals. They can commute, spend all day at a computer, and then be too tired to do anything after work as they’ve just eaten whatever was quick and easy. So, with that in mind, if you are a working professional, here are some of the things that you can be doing to make sure you take care of your health at work, so you can carry on working.
Discrimination in the workplace can take many forms. It might be because of a person’s race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, religion, or sexuality. It’s no joke if you think it’s happening to you; however, dealing with it can be challenging to say the least. Workplace discrimination is actually more common than you think. Exact numbers vary, depending on which study you refer to, but there is one common element. Workplace discrimination is a real problem.
If you think you’re on the receiving end of any form of discrimination, these are the steps you should take.
It is likely you will meet different people each working day, such as colleagues, clients or customers, business associates, and vendors. For this reason, you must aim to develop a smart, hygienic appearance to make a great first impression.
As you will represent a brand, you must aim to refine your look as much as possible. Read the below advice on how to improve your professional appearance.
Communicating over digital platforms can be a challenge when using text alone because we miss all the non-verbal cues. That’s where the emoji come in. Emoji help add context to our digital communication so we can distinguish the tone or mood of the message. They also act as flair, letting people show a bit of their personality and have some fun in the process. Since their introduction to the U.S. less than a decade ago, emoji have had a big impact on our digital communication.
Toxicity in the workplace is hard to ignore, especially when it’s coming from the inside out. If you find that you aren’t progressing as much as you’d hope to in your career, it may be due to your personality traits. To succeed in professional career it is not sufficient to work hard. Your personal traits matter as much as your professional ones. The following eight toxic traits are keeping you from succeeding in your career:
Where learning is concerned, it is common for professionals to find themselves stagnating at work. This is often a result of when the demands of the job are eating up whatever time they have which is bad news for professional development. Over time, you might find yourself no longer growing into the person you imagined a few years ago, a sad realisation, but the good news is you can take back control of your learning at work.
This is important because what you can learn is more relevant than what you know now, and employers need this dynamism for their employees to flourish. After all, behind every successful business is a successful team and you’re a cog in that wheel.
Taking control of your learning at work if you’re exceptionally busy will be more difficult than if you have some spare time. But it can be done and here is how to do it.
As an employee, nothing can be as confusing as discovering that your employer is secretly committing an unlawful act. Whether it’s something as mild as depriving overtime or a bit serious like sexual harassment, it can be horrifying. It can be a traumatic experience, especially when you know that reporting him to the authorities will inherently make you victimized and perhaps get fired.
Those who’ve been here before would advise you to quit working at the company and find another job elsewhere. Of course, that’s a much more judicious decision, although it is still your responsibility to inform the authorities about it. These are the steps to follow:
Companies today are migrating to an agile framework and are looking for candidates who are well versed with the principles, techniques, and tools used in agile. Agile is found to be a more efficient way of operating and progressing through the project. The software industry is transforming to agile and so, every individual working in this industry can benefit from learning the agile.
Drug testing in American workplaces became more common after 1986 when federal employees become officially forbidden from using illegal drugs. However, as states began changing laws to allow consumption of marijuana for medical use or even recreational use, this federal law that encourages drug testing has become an issue. Particularly for companies that have federal contracts and are based in a state where recreational use of marijuana is completely legal. Over this time, propagation techniques and cultivation has meant that concentration of THC levels has found to have been steadily increasing. This has become a problem for people who are in proximity to others who are smoking the drug, even if they are not imbibing themselves, as workplace drug testing that uses a hair strand drug test may still pick up traces of THC long after the exposure period, creating a false positive result purely from exposure. Questions arise about how long after exposure can trace of the drug still be detected in your system and do different tests produce different results.
