Healthy Workplace

Focus despite the furore
You work in an open-plan office that’s a cocktail of distractions. How are you supposed to get any work done?

You and public speaking
At least one in every five people reading this has a deadly fear of public speaking. But you might have no choice. Here's how to master the art.

A healthy back at your desk
National Back Week is from 6 to 12 September and offers the opportunity to take a closer look at preventing the back ailments affecting so many people.

10 tips to avoid work-related backache
Here are a few easy tips that will help you to adjust your work space to avoid lower back pain, headaches and other common work-related injuries.

Learn to say no
You've just put down the telephone after agreeing to something you don't really want to do. You feel as if you have, in some way, betrayed yourself. Why on earth did you say yes?

Toxic boss?
Shouting, screaming, swearing. Oh yes, and then there are the impossible deadlines and the blame-shifting. Is he or she the boss from hell?

Chairs, phones and other enemies of your back
From the minor but persistent twinge to the white-hot sort that lances up your spine, defying description and limiting movement, we’ve all had back pain.

Does your desk make you sick?
New research shows what workers have known for years: combining long hours, poor posture and clutter can make you sick.