#healthy workforce

[resiliencyprogram]

4 Reasons Why Corporate Wellness is Important

Corporate wellness programs offer a range of benefits that positively impact both employees and organizations.

By promoting healthier lifestyles, these programs lead to improved productivity, as employees experience better physical and mental well-being, allowing them to focus and perform more efficiently at work.

Additionally, wellness initiatives often result in reduced healthcare costs for companies by helping employees prevent or manage chronic health conditions.

A healthier workforce also means decreased absenteeism, as employees take fewer sick days.

Lastly, wellness programs foster a more satisfied and engaged workforce, boosting morale and retention rates, leading to a more positive workplace culture.

Boost your organization’s resilience and empower your team to thrive! Connect with the Resiliency Program today to discover personalized solutions that reduce burnout, enhance productivity, and foster long-term well-being.

Let’s build a resilient workforce together – contact us now to get started!

[bethechangehr]

Learn why employee well-being matters and how you can make a difference by prioritizing it for a healthier and more productive workforce.

[hysteriasgarden]

sometimes I feel guilty for disliking my parents, or moreso how they acted when I was a kid sometimes. because nowadays they're great. they're absolutely fine. so it would be ungrateful to say they're bad parents? they spoiled me as a kid if anything, they kept me safe and all that too.

but at the same time, them being good now doesn't change the fact that I needed them to be good when I was still growing. it helps nothing for them to be good parents now that I'm an adult and already fucked up from them. it changes nothing that they were slightly traumatizing when I was still developing and growing as a child

[cottagecore-raccoon]

Does anyone find it physically impossible to enjoy food at their workplace? Like it could be my favorite food normally, but once I’m in the lunch room it’s dead to me

[esperanzaevajoy]

it’s so hard to lose weight and eat healthy when u work at a restaurant 😩 but imma just have to learn self control cuz i genuinely enjoy food service and i’m NOT working retail ever again 😭

[thebusinessmagnate]

Matt Barnard: Reimagining and Redefining Cleaner Futures with Indoor Vertical Farming Solutions

Have you ever come across fruits and vegetables that look so delicious and you purchase them, but end up realizing that the looks were far from the taste and quality? Well, you’re not alone. Adulterated, genetically modified, pesticide foods that are grown in dirty and unclean soil and environments tend to lose their taste and quality. They are then injected with chemicals to increase their physical appearances to fool customers into making the purchase. Unclean food or food that is grown in dirty and unhygienic environments can be quite detrimental to the health of its consumers. Therefore a safer approach is sustainable food production and consumption, and organic farming which is healthier, preserves the environment, reduces pollution, is free from adulterants and pesticides, and reduces excess water usage. 

Clean food solutions that are followed consistently aid in improving overall health, preserving and conserving the ecosystem and biodiversity, reducing the use of excess water, reducing the endangerment and extinction of species, efficiently improving the use of natural and renewable resources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing adverse climatic changes and global warming. The practices in sustainable agriculture by our farmers, agronomists, scientists, and start-up businesses play an enormous role in fostering and establishing urban farming innovations. One such example is Indoor Vertical Farming.

Indoor Vertical Farming Solutions are farming solutions that grow and cultivate crops and diverse food products in a specifically interior-controlled microclimate space that is vertically stacked one upon the other. Wherein this practice is also referred to as – CEA (Controlled-Environment Agriculture), these solutions are a modern and sustainable way of growing and cultivating food ingredients and products alongside advanced technological tools and resources. This reduces the extent of environmental pollution and damage and improves the quality and yield of the crops grown and harvested. Through indoor vertical farming, the food crops are grown in spaces with controllable settings and features such as temperature, lighting, water, and more, in an optimized, clean, and safe environment. 

Therefore in this article, we will be covering the entrepreneurial and inspiring idea and passion for sustainably growing and living by co-founder Matt Barnard’s Indoor Vertical Farming company – Plenty, which is on a mission to – “bring the freshest, cleanest, most crave-able produce to people everywhere”. 

For more interesting insights, visit The Business Magnate. 

Matt Barnard – Co-Founder and CEO:

The Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Plenty is Matt Barnard. With a driving passion to work towards building and connecting with the world through innovative, creative, and agricultural sustainability initiatives, Matt aimed to – “bring healthy food to the world while protecting the environment”. The co-founder has a formal education of a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Northwestern University and a Master of Science Degree in Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Matt started his career back in 1995 and has since then worked in many diverse roles and positions that have gained his skill, experience, knowledge, and awareness about the people and the world. 

As Nate Story – Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Plenty says – “I felt that technology could help feed a lot of people, extend lives, fight environmental destabilization, and give the land back to the natural landscape”.

“Plenty believes that food justice is social justice.” – Plenty. 

Matt Barnard, Nate Story, and two other co-founders got together with the same passion to drive change, transform, reimagine, and redefine cleaner and safer futures, that integrate technology and science by a highly qualified team of growers, engineers, artists, foodies, plant scientists, and agronomists. This is how their Indoor Vertical Farming solutions company came to life. 

PLENTY:

Co-founders – Matt Barnard, Nate Story, Jack Oslan, and Nate Mazonson, together founded – Plenty, a food and beverage company on a mission to feed the world in a sustainable way and approach. The company encourages its workforce and team to inculcate core values of – Finding a Way, Being Down to Earth, and Growing Together. Although founded in the year 2013, Plenty was launched in the year 2014 in the South of San Francisco, USA, establishing and implementing the future of agriculture.

At Plenty, we’re reimagining what a farm can be.”

Plenty is a company that grows and harvests its food products indoors in vertical farming agriculture, cultivation, and sustainable strategies. Matt Barnard – the CEO of Plenty, built the company alongside his co-founding partners with the vision to grow and deliver pesticide-free, GMO-free, organic, fresh, hand-picked food ingredients that provide all the nutrients and minerals that an individual may need from that particular food product. The use of advanced technological tools and resources cut down the physical need for a labor workforce, enhancing and speeding up operations seamlessly. Crispy Lettuce, Baby Kale, Baby Arugula, and Spring Mix are the current ingredients in business. In this year 2024, Plenty is soon to release its fresh and farm-growing Strawberries year-round in Virginia, USA, and is working towards adding more food ingredients to its list.

The vision and mission behind Plenty’s indoor vertical farming was to address the challenges brought about by a series of events that have been taking place all over the world. Overpopulation gives rise to a rapid decrease in the availability of cultivable land space, decreasing the quantity and quality of the food grown. This threatens the availability of food for the people and therefore Plenty acts as a solution and a place where people can trust that the food that they consume comes from, is safe, consistent, and healthy. Less land area used, reduced water usage, and healthy food grown are the number one priority to happy smiles and healthy lives.

Visit More : https://thebusinessmagnate.com/matt-barnard-reimagining-and-redefining-cleaner-futures-with-indoor-vertical-farming-solutions/

[thecoachingdirectory]

Wondering how to enhance employee engagement and ignite the spark of passion within each individual? It’s time to take action and transform your workplace into a thriving oasis of productivity, engagement, and well-being! Introducing the power of a well-implemented corporate wellness program. Check this out!

[transmutationisms]

could you talk more on eds and biopolitics?

sure, so this is broad strokes and it's also worth reiterating that the energy deficit characteristic of EDs can have a lot of different causes besides intentional food restriction—food insecurity is a huge and underrecognised factor here but there are many others. so when i talk about intentional restriction and the desire to be thin / lose weight, i'm not suggesting these are universal characteristics or causes of EDs.

anyway though, in the context of discussing these things, and particularly the relationship between 'diet culture' and EDs, a perennial frustration to me is that i often hear people fall back on the idea that the desire to be thin comes about as a result of the beauty standards perpetuated in mass media, fashion adverts, &c, without any subsequent interrogation of why it is that beauty itself is now so heavily dependent on thinness. after all, plenty of people have pointed out this is not a universal; beauty varies in different times and places, what is described or depicted as beautiful in historical records doesn't necessarily have much overlap with today's hegemonic standards, and so forth.

so when historicising this phenomenon it becomes very clear that the euro/anglo standard of thinness as beauty is, one, part of the ideological apparatus justifying colonialism thru the creation of race and white supremacy. sabrina strings and da'shaun harrison have written on this. two, the thin ideal is also inextricably tied up in medical discourses defining the ideal body as one that is economically productive, with the promise being that if the populace can be transformed into 'healthy',*** useful, hardworking citizens, the state benefits. control of bodyweight is therefore certainly a means of demonstrating one's supposed self-control, moral discipline, &c, but it is also a demand expressed in medical terms: these two discourses merge and overlap, and are both part of the capitalist state's transformation of its citizenry into a biological resource that can be controlled, managed, and exploited to bourgeois ends (profit): hence, biopolitics.

(***the story of how 'health' itself comes to be so dependent on thinness is obviously a critical piece of all this but this post is long as shit already so suffice it to say that this conflation is also not obvious, necessary, universal, &c &c)

medico-political discourses in the 19th century tended to talk about the dangers of both over- and under-weight more than what we hear now; similarly, if you think about something like wilbur atwater's calorie-value charts, these were explicitly intended to guide labourers to the most calorie-dense foods, because to atwater the central danger to be avoided was starvation among the workforce. these days in wealthy countries like the us, you are much more likely to hear about weight management in the context of demands to reduce; this is of course following moves like the WHO declaring an 'obesity epidemic' in 1997, and the rise in the usa of more explicitly nationalist, militaristic weight-loss rhetoric in the post-9/11 era.

however, my position is that these demands for thinness, and the beauty standard that follows and justifies them, are not a departure from earlier 19th- and 20th-century scientific nutrition advice, just an evolution that, for a multitude of reasons (politics, medical professional interests, insurance company practices, &c) has simply come to focus more on the ostensible economic and national threat posed by fatness. the underlying logic bears the biopolitical throughline: the state has, or ought to have, an interest in enforcing the health of its population, and as part of this demands that you the individual surveil and alter your weight according to the scientific guidelines du jour.

this is fertile ground for the development of what, in extreme form, we regard as ED pathology. first, because even the most purely 'health'-motivated individual engaging in the required degree of bodily monitoring and caloric restriction is liable to respond to energy deficit in ways that can become diagnosably distressing. second, because the morals of 'health' are never far from standards of beauty; thinness is sold in overtly profitable ways (the diet and weight-loss industries) and furthermore, our idea of beauty is often a kind of post hoc justification for the thinness already being demanded by state and medical authorities. which is really just to say, beauty is part of the ideological superstructure both resulting from and invoked as a justification for the material conditions of capitalist biopolitics. again this is very broad strokes, but imo it is a much more useful framework to understand EDs than simply presenting them as a result of desiring thinness because it is glorified in The Media, because... reasons (essentially the rené girard model, lol).

[purplesoulcollection]

Unnatural Love

Part 3 Synopsis : Name has being transmigrated into the world of I'm Not That Kind Of Talent without ever reading the novel. She's not being reincarnated as a human but as a devil as well. Hi There! I want to let you know that this fanfiction story isn't solely my creation. I borrowed the concept from @quqiwo2. I haven't actually read the novel either, just some spoiler to the end.

I hope you'll excuse my spelling and grammar mistake, because English not my first language.

"Adele, starting today you are assigned to be a servant of Mr Demon. Get to work today!" said the Head Servant of this demon palace.

He was an older man who seemed to have a lot of experience in workforce personalization.

"You mean I work for Mr Demon? Isn't there Mr. Ed, the deputy troop commander, ready to help him?" My curiosity getting better than me.

Wasn't he already has a deputy who ready to help him, why should me too?

"Adele, you have been given a name by Mr Demon, repay him for your beautiful name." This butler seems to be saying that I don't deserve this beautiful name given to me.

Because lowly background...

And that makes me really annoyed with him.

But in the end I could only agree with the butler's words, having no choice but to swallow my resentment.

Then I was curious, why did I become his servant Mr Demon. It's true that I was given a name after the first time they met and Mr Demon greeted me when we met a few more times.

But I don't think there's anything strange about it.

Did my job change like this because of a request from Mr Demon or was this actually a ploy by the demon king.

If it was the latter, I would most likely be used as a pawn as a spy.

Because after all Mr Demon still a human. Unless he completely sides with the devil.

I'm not stupid enough to don't know that he still holds on to his human side too.

The proof is that he just kept to himself in his room, not too involved with the zero troops he led due to illness.

Whatever the demon king's cunning plans, I will not remain silent if I am used as his temporary pawn. I still have my brain to think logically to subjugate him.

But for the time being I will remain obediently a virtuous servant.

"Mr Demon, I'm Adele. I brought your breakfast." I knocked his room door, letting him know that I'm here.

"Come in!" Although be muted, his voices are still heard from outside.

Then I went in and put the food Mr Demon on the table available in his room. Not letting my eyes wander to him when he wears his shirt on top of his turtleneck.

And Mr Demon who was already wearing formal clothes, finally sat down in his chair to eat his food.

I watched him eat until he finished before I finally started to tell him,

"Mr Demon, starting today I am assigned to be your servant."

Mr Demon was surprised. He seemed to choke on his own saliva before he finally drank the water.

"You?! I thought you were just delivering food as usual."

Indeed, before today I was assigned several times to deliver food Mr Demon too. We were quite friendly in chatting about things unrelated to our status and differences.

Honestly, talking to Mr Demon made me feel again what it feels to be a human again in the midst of interactions with demons that are very annoying and discouraging for me.

Here's my relationship with the demons is not healthy for my own body and soul. I always have to be hit by anger, belittled, blows, sarcasm, death threats. I'm tired to always nonchalant about that fact.

I always have to be patient so that there is no reason for me to just die.

So talking to him really made me think that he is more friendly than the rumors that say he will kill you if you bother him even the slightest bit.

The real demon isn't any better than the rumored Demon.

To answer the question Mr Demon earlier...

"I thought so too, but I only received orders from my superiors. So I don't know the reason. "

Then he fell silent with his face wrinkled and his red eyes turned into those of a scary predator. That looks is really scary though.

But from my experience, Mr Demon will only stare intently. didn't actually try to attack me.

When I first saw those eyes I was scared to death, but now I'm used to it.

'As long as I've done nothing wrong, why should I be afraid?'

So I remained calm even though I was being stared at like that.

But the effects of being stared at for a long time like that are also dangerous, so let's shift the focus...

"After eating, do you want to visit Troop 0? Troop 0 has been waiting for your presence among them for a long time."

"Team 0..." As usual, Mr Demon always reluctant to discuss his own troops. If someone really used their brain, they will know it.

"Mr Ed has also been waiting for your arrival for a long time."

"Mr. Ed?! Why do you call him so polite. Is he not being nice to you?"

Is Mr Demon is the actual crazy? Even if he's not like the strong one in Devil's troop, he's still be one of the strongest devil in this devil palace.

"You keep joking, Mr Demon. Mr. Ed also really hates lowly devils like me. Besides, Mr. Ed is good with you because he is loyal and admires you. There's no way I could get the same treatment as Mr Demon."

"Are you... are you still experiencing hate treatment like this all the time?" His face looks not very good one. He looks very annoyed but still care for me... and that's makes me give a sorrowful smile.

"There won't be any significant changes, Mr Demon. But if I could hide behind a name Mr Demon maybe I could even scare them." I joked around to Mr Demon.

I need to change the sad topic, maybe he'll say no and i move on.

"Do it!" a spontaneous voice Mr Demon making me open my eyes to stare Mr Demon that had been speaking nonsense.

"I was just joking, Mr Demon. Please don't take my joke seriously." I tried to persuade him Mr Demon he just shook his head.

"You have to fight, Adele. Even if you consider yourself a worthless devil, you still have to fight for yourself." His face shows the fighting spirit that i should have, but i lacked that spirit.

'Maybe i don't really cut out with this world.'

"But, aren't you injured because of the effects of fighting a hero. If I involve you who are still sick in my problem..."

"I'll take care of it in time."

My mouth opened with reflexes, I found my savior in the midst of the complexity of this devil's world...

So I leaned a little closer and smiled broadly at Mr Demon and said "You said that yourself, I would like to thank you first, Mr Demon. For the inconvenience i'll brought"

I was busy thinking about the best way to use a name of Mr. Demon to get revenge on my bully until I didn't see his red face while looking at me.

To Be Continued

[homunculus-argument]

It's actually kind of annoying sometimes how many maladaptive behaviours that you learn from growing up in a dysfunctional family dynamic are directly transferable skills in living in a capitalist society. Like keeping up appearances and lying.

I have been an absolute trainwreck disaster for most of the time I've been in schools and employment, not to speak of being incompetent at work and studies thanks to undiagnosed and unmedicated ADHD, but I've fucking aced every single job interview I've been in purely because I've learned to guess what kind of answers to give to a question by the tone and context it's delivered in, and how to spin the facts into the most attractive light. The fake face of appearing confident, competent and generally having my shit together was honed and polished into perfection long before I entered the workforce.

Normal parents don't give their children constructive criticism on how to convincingly appear fine when they're mentally falling apart. You don't raise stable, happy and healthy people by teaching them how to hide symptoms and how to appear honest and genuine when you're lying through your teeth about how you're doing and how enthusiastic you are to be in a place where you were dragged against your will, but that sure is a way to train them for seeking employment.

[phoenixyfriend]

I've been thinking about how it might be useful, if not necessarily entirely fulfilling for whatever it is that I need out of them, to ask politicians how they would define a healthy economy, as opposed to just asking them how they would try to ensure a healthy economy.

President Joe Biden took to the White House lectern Friday to tout the healthy economy – strong job creation, lowering inflation and increased workforce participation and job satisfaction. - US News, Sep. 1, 2023

And

"I think we will see a big pickup in growth. We may not see it in the winter quarter...but I’m hopeful that we’ll see it in the spring,” Larry Kudlow, head of the National Economic Council, said on Fox Business. “It’s a fundamentally healthy economy,” he said, touting the 3.5 percent unemployment rate and “tremendous wage gains.” - The Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2020

In both cases they are offering a few signs of a healthy economy, the things that are quantified and measured as indicators, like unemployment, inflation, and wages.

But... wouldn't 'the ability to buy or rent a living space, and food security, for as many people as possible' make more sense?

Yeah, low inflation is the sign of a good economy, but what is the healthy economy actually doing? The jobs being created, are they actually full time and paying a living wage?

Fuck knows how many times a person at the podium has referenced the stock market as a signifier of the economy's health, and we all know that's barely relevant to the lives of us normal people.

I guess the question I'd want to ask politicians is "if the economy's health were measured in percentage of people who are able to afford housing, food, and other essentials on a full-time job with no government assistance, is the economy actually healthy?"

Low inflation means jackshit if the minimum wage is still no inflation. Job creation means something, but not if it's so far from your home that you spend most of your paycheck commuting. 'Tremendous wage gains' don't mean much if you're looking at an average that includes the CEOs and allows their paychecks to skew the data upwards.

How many of your citizens can afford housing, groceries, and medical care on a full-time wage, without government assistance?

[shadowmaat]

supernatural intervention

Vampires are champions of humanitarian causes. They want people to be safe and healthy and that means boosting the infrastructure. Affordable housing. UBI. Healthcare. Building support systems to lessen crime. Helping people instead of criminalizing them. Yes, part of it is about protecting their primary source of food, but it also feels good to simply improve things. The world is better than it was in the old days and they're going to make damn sure it stays that way.

Werewolves and other shifters are conservationists. They'll fight to protect the environment, to preserve as much nature as possible, and to insure a healthy and diverse ecosystem. They understand better than anyone that nature is a system and that removing even one element can be catastrophic up and down the food chain. Clean energy is also important to them, as well as finding ways for communities to work with nature (in a safe way) instead of driving it out.

The fae favor humanitarian efforts and conservation. They are also among the world's most terrifying lawyers and contract negotiators. Paperwork is their playground, and they are the sovereigns of the monkey bars.

Dragons are big believers in balance, especially when it comes to wealth and resource distribution. Hoard size is carefully calculated based on a variety of factors, and anyone found to be hoarding more than their "fair share" are liable to find the excess removed from their control. Repeat offenders risk being eaten and their entire hoard donated to various good causes intended to help the less fortunate.

Zombies often work well in waste management and sanitation fields. They're immune to "bad smells" and a lot of toxic hazards and take cleanliness very seriously. They work with others to find safer and healthier ways to deal with waste, both the basic human kind and the factory runoff stuff that threatens environment and people alike. You do NOT want to cross a zombie workforce by getting caught dumping toxins into the local rivers or poisoning the air.

[damnfandomproblems]

#5893:

This reminds of me of that ask that wondered why people are suddenly using the word minor so much. I'm wondering that too.

Minor in this context has always been a legal term for me, nothing else, it's not a descriptive term or a developmental stage, so when I hear things like this, I don't know if I'm supposed to be worried or offended or not, because "minor" doesn't tell me anything about the person. Like, okay, they can't vote, can't live on their own, and will be charged for crimes differently, that doesn't tell what age they are or what life stage they're in or whether or not they're the other person's peer. A lot of y'all use it interchangeably with "helpless toddler" and think that applies to everyone under 18 just cause they can't vote.

Different age groups have different acceptable behaviors, so when I hear things like "he can't have sex, he's a minor!", "a minor's dating an adult!", or "never leave a minor to watch another minor unattended" I do not know how to feel.

Let's look at those statements using actual ages and life stages.

For the first one, is he a kid or a high schooler? Is he 4 or 16? If he's the 4 year old kid, then yes, I'm concerned. If he's a high school teenager, then no, I'm not concerned because that's normal and healthy even though he's not 18 because that's not how the age of consent stuff works. In general, teenagers go through puberty which makes some of them horny, and if they're in high school, consensually messing around with other high schoolers, it's normal and legal and nothing to be concerned about. Sane people aren't going to freak out about that.

For the second one, yeah a 12 y.o. dating a 20 y.o. is bad. But an 18 y.o. dating someone 1 or 2 years younger than them isn't bad because they're in the same stage of life, they're peers, they're not vastly different from one another, they're both teens in hs or just finished with hs. Saying an adult is dating an adult doesn't look bad, but a 60 y.o. dating someone 19-21 y.o. is concerning because they're at different points in their life. The 60 y.o. is maybe close to retiring, but the younger person is still around dealing with college or entering the workforce.

The last one, leaving a 5 y.o. to watch a 2 y.o. is wrong, but leaving a 15 y.o. to watch a kid? Leaving a 17 y.o to watch another 17 y.o.? Those last two aren't wrong and the initial statement sounds really stupid when those ages are applied.

Minor is not a descriptive term. It doesn't tell me anything about the situation or people involved. It's not a stage of life. A 2 y.o. being different from a 12 y.o. and a 6 y.o. being different from a 16 y.o. should be shocking to y'all. When you look at a situation you should be looking at their ages and where they are in life. But some of you kids greatly oversimplify it to solely whether the people can vote or not, which is not how it works and this thinking leads to the wrong conclusions, which are sometimes harmful. This kinda thinking leads to you not understanding how reality actually works, so you get upset when your, truthfully, warped and incorrect version of reality ends up not being what's really happening and isn't what others are seeing. It's already simple enough. Don't use the word minor, use the words kids, babies, teens, adults, old or elderly people. Then not only will you maybe have an accurate grasp of the situation, other people will understand you and know the appropriately way to feel and can help you with that if you struggle.

Posting as a response to a previous problem.

[divineintervention-comics]

Hiya, I binged your blog last night lol, loving the premise and tidbits of Cupbearers So, I got a question. What's Hebe's relationship with her parents like? Best I got is that it's probably not healthy considering the posts I read here but I'm curious. If it's too spoilery, lmk

thank you so much!!

Hebe's relationship with her parents is complicated. shes closest with Hera and is Hera's favorite child because shes the youngest and is the most similar to her when she was a godling. Hera has a tendency to think of Hebe as an extension of herself and she wants Hebe to grow up to become a traditional woman like herself. their relationship is pretty codependent tbh but not unrealistic for a lot of people's experiences.

Hebe's relationship with Zeus is more strained, she wants his approval and for him to care for her the way that he cares about his other children. thats the reason she took up the job of cupbearer (even though Hera DID NOT approve of Hebe entering the workforce since its unbecoming for a girl of her class). Hebe wants to be loved, she wants to be appreciated, she is always working so hard to be seen. thats why she was so upset by Ganymede entering her place of work and taking the attention away from her. for the majority of the story, she assumed that Ganymede was taken to replace her as a child for Zeus to love like his own (she was wrong, she was terribly wrong).

ive talked about it more in the server i made for this comic but Zeus isnt so much a character in the story as he is a looming presence. he is a character with motivation and depth but he is primarily there to represent a figure with supreme authority and how that can breed violence and exploitation. even being so large and imposing he cant even fit on the pages.

thanks for asking, i could talk about Cupbearers forever. i love getting questions like this bc it helps me form more of my worldbuilding