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Do You Know Which Five Harms For Office Lady Health?
To tell the truth, according to my personal experience, there is less time to do exercise and relax while taking a job in the office. Sometimes, working in the office always makes me feel nervous and stressful. In the modern society, office ladies always get heavy burden from work, which makes them have less time to relax and become depressive. These factors will become invisible health problems to gradually damage office lady health. In this article, it shows what should not be done for the long-term health.
One: avoid work overload
With the increasingly fierce competition, the pace of work of modern career women becomes increasingly tense, making them prone to mental pressure. In fact, mental and physical overload are detrimental to health, causing endocrine disorders and resulting in a variety of physical and mental diseases. Therefore, it’s extremely necessary for professional women to ease the psychological tension, rational organization of work, study and life. What’s more important, office ladies should adhere to physical exercise.
Two: avoid depression and sadness
In daily life, troubles are inevitable. The thing we can do is to vent or transfer a bad mood to adjust ourselves rather than hold down in our mind. Keeping a good mood is beneficial to both mental and physical health.
Three: avoid losing weight blindly
Everyone loves beauty, especially professional women. Working in the office is easy to make office ladies gain weight. However, it’s dangerous for them to have diet tea or diet meals to lose weight. Those weight loss products are harmful to health, making the body collapsed.
Four: avoid heavy make-up
For the work needs, it’s necessary for professional women to make up, but avoid heavy make-up. Because, cosmetics on the market today, no matter how top grade they are, contain much chemical ingredients, such as mercury, lead, and a lot of preservatives. Therefore, these chemicals will seriously irritate the skin, and powder particles easily clog pores, leading to blocking the skin’s respiratory function.
Five: avoid smoking to relieve boredom
At present, many women think that smoking is fashionable. In fact, it’s extremely harmful to women’s health. According to the statistics, the incidence of heart disease on smoking women was ten times higher than those who didn’t smoke. In addition, for young women, smoking also inhibits the facial blood circulation, accelerating the aging face.
Career Women Makes Bad Mothers And Wives, Really?
Some time ago I wrote an article called Housewife vs Career Women Can We Have it All?. This article have brought a lot of traffic to my blog, which I was surprised about, because I didn’t thought there were so manywomen asking themselves what is better if being housewife or a Career Woman. As I explain in my previous article some of us dreamed of having a career and being successful professionally talking. Some people portrait career woman as this bitchy ladies that they would castrate guys if they would have the opportunity; or they are also portrait as dominant women that treats the husbands like doormats and neglect children. While there are women like that that has more to do with the core of the person that if the woman is professionally active or not. I have seen very good mothers that have careers and horrifying mothers that are housewife.Keeping High-Performing Moms In The Workplace
In a recent Fortune article on how to keep high-performing women in the workplace when they want to start a family, author Georgia Collins provides some excellent tips on what companies can do to retain their star female employees.
Collins stresses the following tips for those who manage working moms:
- Allow flexibility (for everyone)
- Don’t manage and measure performance based on “face time” at work. “Manage (and measure) performance by results”
- Provide challenges and new roles to keep these women engaged. Remember, people who feel challenged are happier in their jobs
- Provide positive reinforcement. Letting people know when their contributions make a difference helps keep them motivated
- Recognize that most families now include two working parents and embrace “policies that support families, rather than just working moms” and thus benefit everyone
I have always been a big proponent of measuring and managing employee performance based on results, not on the number of hours they spend at work, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this on Ms. Collins’ list of tips. This process of basing performance on results instead of face time at work is not a new concept. However, until we all work together to change how companies and managers measure performance to put the emphasis on results, working mothers will continue to be challenged in the amount of face time versus other employees.
I also support Ms. Collins’ request for companies to embrace “policies that support families, rather than just working moms.” Supportive and loving families now come in many different forms. Isn’t it about time for companies to move toward policies that accommodate working fathers and partners?
What are your thoughts? What have you or your company done to retain high-performing working moms? Share your ideas in the “Comments” section below.
