Over the last 20 years, we have seen a substantial rise in wellbeing programmes running throughout the country. SMEs, large blue-chip companies, national public bodies and NGOs are all becoming increasingly supportive of their staff, and over those years we’ve teamed up with thousands of organisations to help them tackle workplace stress and make their staff feel truly valued.
As May creeps ever closer and we’re welcomed into spring with earlier dawns and blushing blossoms, you may have remembered that Mental Health Awareness Week is fast approaching. It’s a reflective time of year where we’re able to fully address mental health issues.
Over the past 5 years we have seen a marked increase among many organisations requesting desk massages for their organisations. Companies such as contact centers and tele-marking offices have found these quick treatments fit the bill for their needs and are reaping the benefits for their staff. In this article we want to share with you how some of our larger customers, with our guided expertise, implement desk massages into their company for their staff members. We’ll show you how it all works and how we ensure our services deliver the right results.
At Sense we're always looking to improve the service we provide, so following the feedback we had received from organisers - both within companies and at events - and the thousands of people receiving Sense massages every month, our developers have created a bespoke and seamless appointment booking experience.
In the past few years there have been many studies from across the world that have revealed a clear link between stress and ill health and we now understand that this is having a huge impact on UK businesses.
Back pain complaints are horrendously common and most people at some point in their lives will suffer with this condition. According to HSE musculoskeletal disorders, including back pain, have initiated just under 9 million working days to be lost in the UK. For more information (WRMSDs) http://www.hse.gov.uk/Statistics/causdis/musculoskeletal/msd.pdf
You may have heard that only 7% of a conversation can be attributed to verbal communication - the words a person uses. But where did this notion come from and is it actually true?
In 1971 Professor Albert Mehrabian wrote a book titled Silent Messages.
