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In our recent double whammy survey, we asked if you had turned up to work “drunk” from the night before and secondly if you need stimulant drinks to get you through the working day.

The first survey looking into “drunk working” found that luckily 82% had NEVER done this. Unfortunately there were still 8% that do this on a regular basis and 10% that have done it once or twice. Once or twice is acceptably especially after a big work do, birthday or Christmas party. Do you know someone who falls into that 8% who regularly look bleary eyed and do you think it effects their work productivity?

The second survey asking about drinking stimulant drinks like red bull and monster at work found that a larger amount of people DO NOT drink them. 76% to be exact. However, 24% DO drink these caffeine/sugary drinks to help them get through the working day. Unfortunately, the people drinking these drinks will suffer from a number of side effects like shaking, agitation, dizziness, insomnia, headaches, palpitations and they have a dangerous ability to get people addicted to consuming them.

Our advice would be to keep those boozy nights to the weekend so you are not struggling to cope with a day at work and avoid those caffeine/sugary drinks that can spike your blood sugar levels and cause you to suffer from various other side effects.

Teleperformance Hellas, a member of the Teleperformance Group are one of the best known, largest and most well respected multilingual Contact Centers worldwide; employing several thousand people around the globe, with offices in over 46 countries. The Contact Center handles more than 20,000 telephone based customer service projects every year on a global basis.

They are currently looking for Swedish Customer Care/Technical Support Advisors and Norwegian Customer Care/Technical Support Advisors from anywhere across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Greece and Norway.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a behalf of a large Scandinavian telecommunications company. The position is starting beginning of May 2015.

Responsibilities:
- To receive telephone calls and handle questions or problems that focus on all aspects of customer experience in their program.
- To maintain solid customer relationships by handling their questions and concerns with speed and professionalism.

The role is a fixed term contact working 5 days per week (shift rotation). This is a project based environment and there are real opportunities to develop within the role and also within the company itself.

If this is something of interest to you or someone you know, you can read more on the job descriptions on the website and apply easily ONLINE. You can find the jobs registered here - locate the job that best matches what you are looking for and click through to apply.....

Do not forget that if you know someone that may be interested in these roles..... let them know!!!

PRESS RELEASE: theExMILITARYjob partner with UK Homes 4 Heroes

theExMILITARYjob, have partnered with “UK Homes 4 Hereos” in another compassionate collaboration in its journey to support the ex-military community.

theExMILITARYjob.com launched in October into the TipTopJob network in order to “Help our Heroes back to work”, as we know first-hand just how difficult it is transitioning from the forces to civvy street. We have a duty of care to HELP OUR HEROES BACK TO WORK that bit quicker and that is what TipTopJob/ theExMILITARYjob are doing with a website devoted for them! Already there have been over 1000 jobs registered in the last month and there are many companies jumping to use the services including for example, First Military Recruitment, J1 Consulting, 4exMilitary, CDL, Visaworx and My Private Ark.

UK Homes 4 Heroes is a registered charity in England and Wales dedicated to helping military personnel who seek help from various charities but are turned down because they don’t meet the charities’ criteria. UK Homes 4 Heroes was founded in April 2010 in response to the plight of homeless ex-service personnel.

Mike Dauncey, Chief Executive of TipTopJob states, “We are over the moon to be extending partnerships out to new charities. theExMILITARYjob.com will continue to provide free recruitment job advertising on the jobsite – no strings attached – and are encouraging everyone and anyone to get involved in this worthy cause and recruit one of the many ex-forces into an apprentice role, temporary, contract or permanent placement. ”

Neil Vytelingum, Marketing/Sales Director of UK Homes 4 Heroes, “This partnership has come at a fantastic time and we are excited to work with theExMILITARYjob to help our ex-military contacts find work. So many of the people we speak to need homes but also jobs so this partnership makes perfect sense for us.”

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theExMILITARYjob.com is a specialist jobsite for ex-military personnel offering free recruitment advertising across the UK. It is part of The TipTopJob Group of generic and specialist jobsites that operate over 85 International jobsites around the world. Register online taking a few simple steps and have your jobs live in minutes. For more information please contact Corinne Hutchinson (Marketing/PR) on coz@tiptopjob.com or Stuart Rea (Sales) on stuart.rea@tptopjob.com or call 01628 207350.

Our latest survey asked what people felt contributed most to every day stresses at work.

After asking over 500 people in this survey, we found that most people had “too many demands put on them” at work that meant they felt stressed! 25% of responders selected that contributing factor.

The second most contributing factor was “not enough support” of which 22% of the responders chose.

16% selected “the actual role and content of the job”, 14% “not being heard enough”, 13% “relationships at work” and 8% “changes at work”.

The workplace is a stressful one in everyone’s very busy lives where individuals need to make enough money to pay bills and survive in a tough old world. It is interesting to look into WHAT aspects cause stress for most people but this would obviously vary from individual to individual. Our survey has revealed that the most popular cause of stress are the demands we are faced with at work!

What is making you stressed today?

55% of offices are using air conditioning in the hot weather to cool off their employees. 42% open up their windows and only 3% use fans.

Air conditioning, on the downside, blows any lingering colds and bugs around and can spread illness but it is definitely the best option to quickly cooling down a hot and stuffy office. By an afternoon, fans and windows just do not cut it.

Do any of you have disagreements within the office about how cold it gets using air-conditioning? In our experience, those sitting by the air-conditioning always get freezing cold and those sitting further away from it, don’t see the benefits. Sometimes, people are never happy are they?!?