Familiarity breeds content: embracing routine can make you happier at work
   Stable, physical work which offers a good work-life balance and
   friendships with colleagues may be the secret to career happiness
   Last year, absenteeism (days of work lost due to stress, illness,
   Labour Force Survey, that’s 17 billion working days. While we are being
   given more options to fit work around our outside responsibilities –
   since June 2014 all workers have had the right, by law, to request
   flexible working after 26 weeks, there is a suggestion that stability
   contributing to workplace stress. So could a role that is more
   predictable, and which allows for a better work-life balance, offer
   University of Bedfordshire, says: “Work-life conflict is one of the
   job where you have go into work at set times, take breaks (rather than
   eating lunch while working) and have time to interact with your
   workmates could make you happier.
   among her colleagues – they also work to a strict schedule.
   understanding of how life can be as a working mother.”
   Minds at Work campaign, agrees strong ties with colleagues can add
   people within the workplace. The number one benefit of working is that
   Meanwhile, Kinman says work that is physically demanding, but less
   relationships outside of work. This is true for Rusby who enjoys time
   situations. The variety of people he meets at work is a positive. “In
   that you’d never meet anywhere else, except maybe in school – working
How to deal with stress at work
   Focusing on the upsides can be a good approach to being happy at work.
   give the impression you think you’re too good. Your co-workers are not
   Kinman adds that while in the long-term no one can survive working 40
   work – or are feeling overwhelmed. You could try setting yourself
   goals can work alongside long-term ambitions. If your job is not
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