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Selasa, 22 Desember 2009

Healthy While Working

Maybe you never noticed the pattern of life in the office is very harmful. Eight hours of sitting in a chair in front of the computer, for five or six working days, will bring the risk to your health. Sitting for hours makes your eyes so tight and stiff neck muscles. Fat can also accumulate in the abdomen, if you can’t help my-self. You must prevent the bad habits that do not constantly occur.

1. The first step: limit snacks
If your friends have a snack at work desk, remove yourself from temptation, According to the dentist at the American Dietetic Association, if you need to take a shortcut, so you do not often see food. Rest for a moment, take a deep breath, and remove the desire to eat sweet foods. If you're hungry, better to take stock of fruit from home, Healthy and filling.

2. Step two: inadequate water needs
Drink plenty of water, approximately 10 glasses per day. Make a plan so that your intentions were successful. Bring a large bottle of mineral water to the office, spend one bottle until lunchtime, then fill up again and finish at 3 pm, and spent the afternoon at 5 o'clock in the third bottle. If necessary, install an alarm on your cell phone to remind you when to drink, Consumption of water content-rich fruit, like oranges, grapes, melons and apples as an alternative water intake.

3. Step three: do not be lazy motion
Important things you can do to stay healthy and slim is to exercise. Do not have to think about during intense exercise in the office. Try to walk at lunch or pick up the stairs from the elevator. Walking can burn calories, refreshing, and relieve stress.

4. Step four: do not miss lunch
Do not miss your lunch. Watch your meal, not to eat too much and then just sit in a chair all afternoon or should not eat too little until you less nutrient intake.

5. Step five: safety at work
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Tension Neck Syndrome (TNS) or neck pain, may occur when the muscles of the neck and shoulders, one position for long. This is usually experienced by workers in charge of receiving the phone all day or typing for hours.

To avoid neck pain in the long term, a professor of ergonomics - the study the relationship between humans and machines at Cornell University, suggested that workers should be on duty received a phone call using the speakerphone, a buffer shoulder or use a headset when you receive the phone.

6. Step six: set distance with a computer
Eye strain from too long a matter of sitting in front of the computer, According to experts from the University of California, this causes headaches, difficulty focusing, and increased sensitivity to light. If you can’t read the writing on your computer screen from a distance, it's better to enlarge the size of the letter.

7. Step seven: on vacation
Vacation is very useful to relieve themselves from the bustle, and help fill your energy back. Holidays are also useful for reducing stress, especially if you have a conflict with a boss, colleague or project you are doing. Stress can affect health, weakens the immune system and increase the risk of illness.

8. Step eight: do not delay the task office
Do not buy time job, so you must complete the work that piled up. According to the president of Business Psychology Consulting, who tend to finish all the tasks as an individual, his health is also vulnerable disrupted. The hard worker just realized when you experience stress in a high level, which affects their relationships and moods. Such stress is caused by conditions that are too tired. Fatigue can also affect the immune system of a person, sleep disturbances and disrupt concentration.

9. The ninth step: keep the cleanliness of facilities in the office
Alert to office equipment. Keyboard, mouse and you've used the phone could be a nest of thousands of germs. Science Daily, researchers at the 100th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology reported that the virus can survive for hours to days on rough surfaces. Rotavirus causes diarrhea, usually located on the surface of the receiver. National Consumers League recommends to always clean the office equipment with anti-bacterial cleanser.

10. Step ten: stretching on the sidelines working
The most important step to maintain health in the workplace is a self-awareness to rest. Your body has a 'alarm' when the body is exhausted. Snacks you work with light stretching or massage that can prevent muscle stiffness.

Jumat, 11 Desember 2009

40 Hour Week Enough to Work

In the world of work today, work is more oriented to results, not process. Companies will only see the results of the work, without considering how to achieve them.

This could mean either, if you are able to organize time to achieve maximum results. But if you are not able to manage time, you are precisely who will be drawn into that job without being able to escape. In fact, you might spend almost all your time to work. From now on, arrange your working time. Laura Stack, a trainer in the field effectiveness of the work, provides some important points.

1. There is never enough time to complete the whole job
The more you try hard to solve, will be growing a lot just the job. And, when you feel tired, and frustrated, instead quality declined the job. This means, it would take even more time to fix it. So, appreciate yourself by limiting the working time.

2. Do it all in eight hours
The term usually workaholics tend to be associated with the number of hours worked, not from the results of his work. So, no need to force my-self overtime every day just to get such recognition, useless, better focus to improve productivity by improving its effectiveness. You definitely do not want, instead, is appreciated for who you are most comfortable in the office, and not because of accomplishments.

3. Leaving early
Perhaps most workers choose depart as scheduled, and came home a little late to get attention from the boss. Yes, assuming it was not far wrong. But, have you ever thought about another alternative, namely to leave early, and go home earlier than others to avoid congestion on the highway when everyone got home from work?

It would be better for you. Faster start working, you can be more focused. And you still have time in the afternoon to just relax, spend time with family, or do other work. To avoid gossip office colleagues, make sure they know that you've started working when they were probably still asleep or are traveling through the congestion. And, show that the results of your work better with earlier work.

4. Home on time
Make sure you comply with the deadlines that you set yourself. When did you decide to leave the office at three in the afternoon, always try to keep them. Once you breach, you will more easily break them again next time.

5. Inform colleagues
When did you set the working hours are not the same with my colleagues the other, make sure they know. This is important, to avoid the possibility that they need your help when you are preparing to go home.

6. Give the limits of tolerance
All assessments that didn’t mean you should run it rigid. It's just a matter of building a habit. If indeed there is important work to be done that day, there's nothing wrong occasionally tolerate one or two hours more. But remember, do not even habit.

Rabu, 11 November 2009

Permit Right Reasons not to work temporarily due to Illness

When you wake in the morning with dazed eyes, body limp and fever, must have had dawned in the mind to take permission from work because of illness. But sometimes you also feel free to stay home and rest, because it could be, the symptoms will disappear as soon as you arrive at the workplace.

Taking the decision to rest at home or leave for work and equipment is not trivial. You need to consider a few things so that no one made a decision. Here are some common things to be the best reason for taking leave.

1. You are endangering other people
The first thing you should ask yourself is, if the disease does not just make yourself comfortable, or to be harmful to others? Take for example, your ears are ringing and disturbing the hearing. This phenomenon is not really a big problem if you only work at the computer and not in touch with many people, a writer for example. But that hearing problems can be fatal if you work as a pilot or driver, who must always focus on and listen to the situation that exists for the safety of passengers.

When you just sneezing and watery eyes and hold without any other complaints such as fever, maybe it was just symptoms of allergies. Do not pamper yourself, simply provide a tissue and went to work.

2. You communicable diseases
If you suffer from infectious diseases, flu-like, it's better just rest at home. But sometimes, you do not realize that you are infected with the virus until you are a runny nose and sneezing uncontrollably, though, the flu virus is spread when the first incubation period.

Not a big problem when your work space separate from other colleagues. But if you work in a hospital, or jobs that require a lot of contact with children or elderly, it is better to ask leave immediately if you feel your body is problematic.

When the body is feeling more comfortable, although the complaints have not really lost, you better get to the office. But make sure you do not transmit the virus to others is minimized by avoiding physical contact and do not use the stuff together.

3. Can’t be productive
When you just come to work to simply filling presence, forget it, especially if you caused pain unfocused it could make the team work becomes damaged. Better get some rest. But do not necessarily easy to ask leave of absence for health reasons, because it will hurt yourself, Many companies who only tolerates only three days of sick leave within a year.

Selasa, 24 Maret 2009

Working Backwards from the Way that Elegant

You feel bored with the current job, and, after all this time trying to find a new job more challenging, you finally get it. Yes, what a relief. Want it hastened to quit a job now and welcomed a new job you get.

But wait, do not rush. There are several things you need to fix before moving to work. This is important, so you do not leave a bad impression in the middle of an old colleague, anyone never know what will happen in the future. Maybe you're still going to need these people, or even, someday you will return.

The most important thing you need to remember is, don’t ever mention resign before you sign a new contract with the company. Bragging about new jobs in old workplaces would only disturb my friends, and could even offend your boss, so you might actually terminated before getting a new job of your dreams.

In addition, there are a few more things that need to be taken to ensure that your departure impressed elegant than the old office.

1. The first person you should tell a supervisor. Do not move until she heard the news you from others or from a rumor in the office.

2. Wait until the end of the month. Do not leave your old job in the office long before you fix it.

3. Be polite. Do not tease your co-workers at the old office of facilities or services at the new office. This will make them envy and hate.

4. Do not bad-mouth the old office. In any case, you should still respect the office where you worked so long.

5. Simplify your files. Do not let co-workers or your successor in office long felt difficulties until they have to call you back at the new office.

6. Prepare a replacement. If possible, you need someone who is getting ready to prepare to replace your position, so that position is not vacant and immediately handled by the right person.

7. Lastly, do not take things work.