The balance between your personal life and work life is a never-ending compromise!
In taking time away from the office last week, I have come to realize that many office workers do not schedule time off EVER. As we all know, planned time off helps to reduce stress, clears the mind, and refocuses our energies. This is exactly how I feel now that I am back in my office with renewed focus and a structured “To Do” list after a few days off. Many find that mobile chair massage can increase productivity and while decreasing stress.
In researching this top for this blog, I heard a short audio segment on NPR (while away) which states ” A recent poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds about half of Americans who work 50-plus hours a week say they don’t take all or most of the vacation they’ve earned. In our poll, 35 percent of people who work 50 or more hours a week say they also skip vacations because they want to get ahead at work.”
To further emphasize the reduction of vacation time, this same segment states “Today, Americans take far less vacation time than they did a few decades ago, says psychologist Matthew J. Grawitch of Saint Louis University, who studies stress in the workplace. Research shows that, on average, Americans now take 16.2 days of vacation a year, compared with nearly three weeks of vacation in 2000.”
What can be done to alter or “fix” this problem? Mobile chair massage and corporate on-site wellness programs of course! On-site chair massage, yoga classes, and meditation classes can benefit the employee by gaining renewed focus to attend to those larger-than-life projects which require both excessive time and attention.
Many companies are offering these programs and making the effort because they recognize the high cost in all areas; lower productivity and/or the loss of valuable employees to name a few.
Want to schedule your on-site chair massage program today? Simply contact me Janet Constantino, CEO of Massage Kneads, to start your quotation and CROSS this project off your “To Do” list.
Escape. Experience. Enjoy.
Sources:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/12/485606970/overworked-americans-arent-taking-the-vacation-theyve-earned
