healthy workplace

Working overtime? Insights from research and law

You might have seen the headlines recently: working long hours isn’t good for our health. Maybe you read the headlines and chose to blissfully ignore them, excusing yourself as the exception to the rule. Whether we work overtime regularly, or once in a blue moon, it’s important to know [...]

2021-06-23T10:53:06+12:00June 21st, 2021|

What is presenteeism and what do we do about it?

Picture this, you wake up on Tuesday morning with a splitting headache and heavy congestion. You’re pretty sure you don’t have COVID-19 and a moment passes as you consider whether you should take a sick day. Remembering the important meetings you have booked for the afternoon and the impending [...]

2020-10-28T11:41:38+13:00October 27th, 2020|

New workshop: Strengthening Psychological Safety

Imagine a senior advisor is sitting in a meeting about an upcoming major project. He notices the person leading the project may have missed a pivotal point. The senior advisor recalls the last time he provided feedback and how he was made to look incompetent, so he says nothing [...]

2020-02-24T13:40:37+13:00January 31st, 2020|

Reducing digital overload

The advantages of being able to work flexibly, contactable at any location and to respond quickly to urgent requests make smartphones and other portable devices invaluable in our working lives. Feeling unable to switch them off, even while we sleep, being distracted by incoming messages when we need our [...]

2020-02-24T12:32:56+13:00September 27th, 2019|