When I took voluntary redundancy from a high-street bank after the birth of my second child, I vowed no-one I employed would suffer the same negative and inflexible experience I endured since becoming a mum.
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Are you a workaholic? - by Richard Morris, UK CEO, at global work space provider Regus
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We’ve all had ‘one of those weeks’. By a nasty stroke of luck, you’ve got projects overlapping, deadlines looming, a dozen client meetings and a handful of new employees to get up to speed. Before you know it, you’re 70 hours deep and you can’t remember what a good sleep feels like.
But for some people, that’s not a bad week – it’s every week!
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Chief Executives Blog: Work Wise Week 2015 Exceeds All Expectations
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I am immensely proud to report that Work Wise Week 2015 has been our most successful yet, with wide National Press and Social Media coverage and inspiring articles from our Guest Bloggers. The blogs featured on our web site have all contributed a huge collective knowledge to any organisation wanting to work smarter and become more productive.
Read MoreGuest Blog: The homeworking message is gradually getting through, now its time to pick up the pace - By Frances O'Grady - TUC General Secretary
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The TUC has been part of the Work Wise UK campaign for smarter working since it began ten years ago. Real progress has been made during the course of the campaign. New figures published by the TUC today show 800,000 more people work from home on a permanent basis compared with a decade ago, taking the total to 4.2 million. In 2005, 12.0 per cent worked from home but by 2015 the figure had risen to 13.7 per cent.
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