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Office party do’s and don’ts

Is your company having an end-of-year office party this year? It’s great to be able to see your colleagues outside of the work environment, but there’s a fine line between having a fun conversation and an inappropriate one. You need to be careful – Here are some essential office party do’s and don’ts! Continue reading “Office party do’s and don’ts”

A day off whenever you want?

You’ve changed the way you read your news, even the way you communicate with friends and family – when last did you read through a newspaper, or post a handwritten letter via snail-mail? In a world of instant messaging and paperless offices, isn’t it time we changed the way we work? Continue reading “A day off whenever you want?”

Could your desk job be affecting your posture?

Do you slouch when walking, or lean forward when working on a computer? Then it’s time for you to straighten up! We’re not kidding either – bad posture can affect your health and can cause a great deal of pain. Desk jobs are notorious for giving us posture problems because we tend to lean forward and stay in that lazy position for hours. Let’s take a deeper look into some of the most common forms of bad posture: Continue reading “Could your desk job be affecting your posture?”

Working with arthritis

Did you know? There are more than 100 diseases which fall under the heading of arthritis, and all of them are characterised by joint stiffness and debilitating pain. Arthritis is a chronic condition, and accounts for more than 1 in every 10 visits to the GP. Joint pain may be caused by injury or an infection but, as we age, the most common cause is osteoarthritis. The joints most generally affected are the hips, knees, shoulders and finger joints.

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