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Can Introducing Plants to Your Premises Increase Business Revenue?

Plants are fast-becoming an important part of modern design. Look at any new development structure, from apartments to corporate headquarters, and you’ll find greenery sprouting from every available space. Particularly amongst younger generations — although this trend is by far from exclusive to millennials — plants are an irresistible design choice for everything from external community areas to private indoor spaces.

Office plantation

This desire to be around plantlife has not gone unnoticed. Only a few years ago, Amazon opened The Spheres, a series of greenhouse locations close to its headquarters in Seattle. Filled with over 40,000 plants, the concept was designed to give its employees a striking green and natural space to explore every day.…

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How to Ensure Your Retail Store is Health and Safety Compliant

Health and safety law extends to all enterprises, no matter how small they are. You are responsible for the health and safety of your retail store.

Wet floor caution sign

It is necessary to take proper precautions to reduce the dangers of occupational accidents and have a safe working atmosphere. All that’s required for many retail stores is a simple set of tasks. This article will walk you through the steps and help you make sure you’ve done everything you can.

Dealing with Wet Floors and Spillages

Wet floors may cause injuries, and your business could be liable by law. So, ensure that you keep your business clean.…

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8 Ways To Improve Your Productivity And Mental Health

During a pandemic, productivity and mental health may seem to function far apart from each other, but they actually work hand in hand. For many of us, including myself, there has been a lot of pressure to not only stay productive, but to accomplish more than ever before.

Productive employee on the job

Although many are working from home, maintaining productivity may be even more difficult right now due to the state of our mental health. Being quarantined in a confined space, unable to hug our loved ones, continuing to work full time while caring for children – and many more stressors can easily cause anyone’s mental health to deteriorate without adequate (or any) time for self care.…

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5 Tips For Staying Stress-Free As a Busy Entrepreneur

You’ve been grinding your business aspirations for months now, gaining huge success and living the dream. There’s just one problem: the stress has become so great that it’s starting to affect your mental and physical health. You’re eating poorly, gaining weight, and you can’t ever seem to relax. What’s to be done?

Buy but stress-free entrepreneur

The entrepreneur lifestyle certainly isn’t for everyone, but those who do pursue it find that stress management becomes a key tool in their success. Managing your stress as a businessman or woman can ensure you’re not overloading yourself and causing burnout. Burnout is a real phenomenon, and once you’ve achieved it, you can actually lose interest in what you’re doing!…

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Checking a Contract’s Health

Most of the world is morbidly preoccupied with health these days. Businesses too are worried about their own health in these uncertain times, and rightly so. Complaints about cures being worse than the disease has spread like an Australian wildfire. But though people and businesses are being tested, I’ve not heard anyone recently speak about getting a contract health check.

Contract health check

Why a Contract Health Check?

Much as companies want to consider contracts as agreements set in stone, every agreement eventually needs some adjustment. Consider these questions, and think about the contracts you have with vendors:

  1. Do these contracts offer good value for money?
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7 Ways to Move Your Team Remote

Remote work has been steadily gaining traction in recent years, most especially now. If you’re lucky, you’ve enabled your team to work remotely–but if not, it’s never too late to start.

Video conference call with remote team members

There are many advantages to moving your team remote. The ability to continue business as usual during a global pandemic is maybe the first to come to mind.

Here are a few concrete ways to take that remote team leap for your business:

1. Communicate clear goals and expectations

Make sure each team member knows what is expected of them, not just in terms of definite tasks and deliverables, but also conduct and communication expectations.…

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Moving to a New Home? Here’s How A Moving Company Can Help You

Moving home is a huge event in our lives and it can also be one of the most stressful. Not only have we got to worry about the negotiations surrounding the purchase of our new property, but we also have to consider how we are going to move our cherished possessions from A to B without losing or damaging anything.

Moving house

This may seem like a daunting task, so many people choose to use a specialist removals firm to help them move home. But do they offer good value for money and how can I find a reliable company if I’m not sure of their benefits?…

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Make Your Online Business Stands Out

It is probably pretty clear by now that being your own boss comes with immense perks. This is not to say that there aren’t always more drawbacks than one would imagine, but being your own boss is without a doubt more rewarding and potentially lucrative than working for someone. This is especially true if you incorporate a virtual side to your business.

Shopping with a reputable online business

More and more people are shopping online these days, and with the scare of the COVID-19 lurking out there, there are some consumers that are online going their shopping online.

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Why Continual Training is Important for CEOs

The majority of CEOs already have a number of years of personal development and experience under their belts. However, continual training is an important part of CEO development, particularly for those who want to remain ahead of their competition.

Learning CEO

photo credit: Diggity Marketing

CEOs need to ensure they are constantly updating their capabilities and skills and prioritizing their self-development. While the main role of a CEO hasn’t changed much over the past few years, the way in which they operate has changed a great deal. The skills and attitudes needed by senior executives to manage effectively have changed a lot. CEOs need more than just technical skills; they also need to be able to imagine and predict any future scenarios that their business may face.…

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Avoiding Injury: 7 Risks and Hazards of Running a Machine Shop

Running any kind of business comes with implicit and explicit hazards, but machine shop owners have more to worry about than the average entrepreneur. The equipment used in machine shops can all be operated safely, but when operated inappropriately or without adequate training or protective gear, it can be extremely dangerous.

Machine shop employee

Read on to find out about seven of the most common risks associated with machine shops and how to avoid them.…

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