Not looking forward to Monday? According to a 2017 Gallop study, neither are nearly 70% of workers, including 60% of Millennials, who make up 38% of the workforce. Besides the obvious things: a perpetually cranky boss, low wages, long hours, and lack of opportunity, could the workplace environment deserve some of the blame? Aesthetics, functionality, […]
The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Excel Industries lawn products company in Kansas, and the WDBJ TV station shooting in Roanoke, Virginia in which two on-air reporters were killed by a former employee, are all tragic reasons why businesses large or small must have an emergency action plan in place. Despite these and other […]
May is usually the signal to get out in the garden and begin the process of connecting with the earth, cultivating the soil, considering what to grow–and everybody’s favorite pastime–pulling the weeds that have sprouted up over the winter and early spring. It is sometimes backbreaking work as we reshape disorder back into a space […]
Run out of the house, quick latte, grab a donut or a muffin as you pass the break room, hit the desk, nibble on those crispy snacks in the drawer, calorific lunch out with colleagues, more sitting, sugar low. So you grab another coffee and a cookie from the break room, rush home to pick […]
Despite a long and grueling election year guaranteed to exhaust even the most ardent current events follower, there remains a seemingly inexhaustible force of social energy, particularly in the Millennial generation. Unfortunately, in the work environment this political and social energy can cause a tidal wave of conflict and distraction. Depending upon...