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Is Your Workplace Smart? (The Guardian: 15/08/2017)

With all the buzz around Smart Cities and Smart Buildings, isn’t it time we also start creating Smart Workplaces? So what exactly are Smart Workplaces and how do they relate to Workplace Wellness? A new report from CBRE Global Workforce identifies five demographic and social tends that are driving interest in Wellness in a Smart Workplace Trend 1: Employees are

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Are Our Farmers Healthy? (The Guardian: 08/08/2017)

As we celebrate Nane Nane, to honor farmers’ contributions to the economy, a question we need to ask is are our farmers healthy? The agriculture sector accounts for half of the national economy. According to the World Bank, employment is agriculture sector in Tanzania was 66.9% in 2014. However, this sector experiences that highest rates of deaths and injuries and

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Is your Company Suffering from “I’m Too Busy” Syndrome (The Guardian: 01/08/2017)

The Busy Syndrome – or is it the 21st Century syndrome? Our go-to response to the question of how are you doing – “ I am so busy” is sometimes seen as a badge of honor. If everyone in your company is constantly saying “I’m busy”, take a step back for a moment and ask “Are we focusing on what

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Women at Work (The Guardian : 18/07/2017)

According to a recent PEW Research Center analysis of labor statistics in 114 countries, women make up 40% of the workforce in more than 80 countries globally. Tanzania with 50.5% working women is amongst the top five countries with the highest female representation in the workforce. Why workplace wellness is vital to women According to a recent Mercer study titled

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Financial Wellness at Workplace (The Guardian: 14/02/2017)

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2016 Employee Financial Wellness Survey incorporating the views of 1.600 full-time employed adults in the U.S.: • 45% of employees identify financial matters as the most stressful issue they face; • 40% have difficulty meeting their household expenses each month; • 24% have withdrawn money from their retirement plans to pay for unrelated expenses. The report further

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So What Exactly is Wellness? (The Guardian : 04/07/2017)

We have been receiving several inquires for conducting Employee Wellness Seminars and most of them request “can you talk about healthy food choices”? Analyzing these requests further revealed that wellness is associated with what we eat – which is a critical, but a miniscule component of the total wellness equation. Wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or

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Do You Have Your Program Design for Employee Wellness? (The Guardian – 13/06/2017)

Increasingly, companies in Tanzania are recognizing the need for Employee Wellness Programs by providing gym membership and some are monitoring gym attendance and subsidizing membership dues as a wellness initiative. This is a positive step indeed – however gym workout is only a small component of a wellness program when you consider the numerous health risks that a typical employee

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So What is Corporate (Workplace) Wellness? (The Guardian : 30/05/2017)

This article is inspired by a couple of recent encounters, where I was asked – “But what exactly is Corporate Wellness?” I am glad this question was asked, because it would be a shame if your organization missed out on all the benefits of Corporate Wellness Program. When you think about it, everyone is striving to be healthier. Trying to

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Mental Health at Workplaces (As published in The Guardian of 30/08/2016)

Last week, one of the leading newspaper reported that a lady in Arusha, set her own house on fire due to a dispute with her husband and when caught and imprisoned, committed suicide. In addition, I have been alarmed by cases of mental disorders over the past few weeks within my professional network, which has prompted this article. The most

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Mental Health at Workplaces – Is Depression a thing in Tanzania? (Published in The Guardian – 05/04/2016)

My column today is prompted by an intriguing question I came across on the social media – “Is Depression a thing in Tanzania or is it laughed off as a foreign thing”? As reported by Dr Kaaya, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at MUHAS, an analysis of facility based data by diagnosis collected from 20 Regions in Tanzania from

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