Sunday, February 11, 2007
Beating Stress at Work - Stress-busters for Workaholics
Beating Stress at Work - Stress-busters for Workaholics
If you are one of those work-till-I- die workaholic who is badly in need of ways to beat stress at work, help is at hand.
The reputed science magazine New Scientist has done yeoman service to the cubicle-dwellers by publishing a guide to beat stress at work and have a stress-free career.
If you thought that one of the suggestions would be to have coffee at regular intervals, you couldn't have been more wrong. The suggestions range from the unorthodox to the unbelievable. A sample of the suggestions:
1. Sneaking out to rub a cat's tummy (just make sure you don't mistake your lady colleague for a cat for pete's sake - our advice!)
2. Climb the corporate ladder (hello, is this a stress-buster or stress-muster? - our question)
3. Hanging out at the water cooler & lunching with colleagues (the only one I could have guessed on my own)
4. Booking nap time in a sleep pod (makes sense, but I'm not sure if it will make sense to your boss)
5. Sniffing a colleague's armpit (this takes the cake; the research reports that in a study female volunteers reported that they felt less stress after sniuffing armpit sweat - though the scientists who conducted the survey are at a loss to explain the reason for this "discovery")
It takes all kinds of things and people to make the corporate world
If you are one of those work-till-I- die workaholic who is badly in need of ways to beat stress at work, help is at hand.
The reputed science magazine New Scientist has done yeoman service to the cubicle-dwellers by publishing a guide to beat stress at work and have a stress-free career.
If you thought that one of the suggestions would be to have coffee at regular intervals, you couldn't have been more wrong. The suggestions range from the unorthodox to the unbelievable. A sample of the suggestions:
1. Sneaking out to rub a cat's tummy (just make sure you don't mistake your lady colleague for a cat for pete's sake - our advice!)
2. Climb the corporate ladder (hello, is this a stress-buster or stress-muster? - our question)
3. Hanging out at the water cooler & lunching with colleagues (the only one I could have guessed on my own)
4. Booking nap time in a sleep pod (makes sense, but I'm not sure if it will make sense to your boss)
5. Sniffing a colleague's armpit (this takes the cake; the research reports that in a study female volunteers reported that they felt less stress after sniuffing armpit sweat - though the scientists who conducted the survey are at a loss to explain the reason for this "discovery")
It takes all kinds of things and people to make the corporate world
