A recent report that explores the pressures on workers during the current deteriorating market conditions has revealed that worries about job loss have contributed to stress becoming the most common cause of long-term absence in the UK for the first time in 12 years.
Bex White | Guides,Lifestyle & Time out
Deadlines, project management, chasing pay, being creative under pressure… it all adds up. From my personal experience and that of managing other designers, I can state one simple fact. Stress is almost always completely self-induced and easily avoided by following a few simple ideas.
Mel Dixon | Lifestyle & Time out
When you’re working as a freelancer or contractor, it’s not just your business you have to manage. You also have to manage your own stress levels. After all, a taut freelancer may soon become unhappy and unmotivated leading to a professional and personal downward spiral.
What follows is a guide to reducing stress levels on the job.
Mel Dixon | Lifestyle & Time out
There are infinite numbers of ways in which freelancers and contractors can relieve work-related stress. Managing your time better, moving a chest of drawers to the other side of the room, or meditating to whale music are just a few that might work.
But sometimes you just want a quick fix for those moments when you feel a bit overwrought. Here we’ve compiled seven of the best stress-busting tools on the market.
Leif Kendall | Lifestyle & Time out
Ah… the life of a freelancer… feet up, TV on, sitting around in your dressing gown and your clients are none the wiser. But is this really the best way to approach your freelance and contracting work? Freelance Advisor and Web Marketing Consultant Leif Kendall asked the freelancers on the Brighton New Media list what [...]
Michael Rose | Lifestyle & Time out
Us freelancers are prone to work overload! I have phases when my mind is like the inside of a very full washing machine on at full tilt. Or I have a worry that won’t go away and I fret at it like a dog with a bone. Result? Insomnia! That maelstrom of tossing and turning, [...]
Darren Fell | Lifestyle & Time out
Stressed, clients permanently on your case and a to-do list as long as the M1? It can happen to all of us, but it’s all too easy to get to the point where you literally do not know which task to do next, as each and every one is screaming “I’m a critical important task….Do [...]
