There is a constant pressure in life to live your best. All the time. No breaks. No time to think or breathe, just constant Instagrammable perfection. From hot dog legs to unicorn everything, the world is like a pressure cooker for women in particular. Or so it seems. 

A lot of businesses work hard to spend as little as possible on their employees. Viewed as a resource rather than as people, it can be all too easy for companies in this position to ignore the needs of their team members. Despite their importance to the company, they will be forced to work unfairly, and this will often make them very unhappy. To help you out with this, this post will be exploring some investments which can improve the lives of employees in your business. With this in mind, it should be a lot easier to build your team into something to be proud of, rather than a source of discontent.

Do you love your office space, or loathe it? Maybe you haven’t given it much thought until now. Regardless of how you feel about your work environment, two truths cannot be avoided. The first is that you spend a LOT of your time in this place. The second is that your workspace can have a significant influence on the way that you feel at work. So, it makes sense to make the best of this place that you call home for seven hours plus each day.

Being a successful entrepreneur takes a lot more than just branding and selling. Every prosperous business owner has a collection of key skills that brought them to where they are today — and cultivating them required a lot of time and dedication.

Would you like to host the best Christmas party ever? There are some factors you need to keep in mind. Besides considering your budget, you will have to find a venue, have a menu and make sure that everything is perfect.

If you’re one of those people who hates everything to do with the commute, office life, annoying co-workers and so on, then you’ll likely have thought, at one stage or another, “is there a way I can survive without all those annoyances, yet still have enough money to, you know, live?” Well, the answer is yes -- you can become a contractor or a freelancer, and be in charge of how you spend your time and still make a good income (indeed, many contractors end up making more money than regular employees). But it won’t necessarily be easy. Below, we take a look at a few tried and tested methods for making the transition more straightforward. 

Work, of course, can often prove to be a pretty stressful environment. Many of us work high demand jobs and expectations of us will be pretty high. We’ll always want to achieve or exceed or KPIs (or “key performance indicators”) and this will inevitably entail meeting deadlines, hitting targets, making sales or generating leads and ultimately working pretty hard. But it’s important to remember that work doesn’t have to be stressful. In fact, you shouldn’t be suffering from stress at work on a regular basis at all!