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Rachna Sharma has spent the past few months coaching people for triathlons and teaching swimming, while training regularly to realise her 50th birthday goal in June: to swim the English Channel. I was proud that I could identify the issues, and help myself.” In today’s transformative work environment, it is heartening to observe an upward trend in organisations recognising the …
For the last four years, Protima Tiwary, an influencer and entrepreneur, has embraced the life of a digital nomad. In India, Vana and Ananda, both headquartered in Uttarakhand, offer such wellness sabbaticals, while a few other retreats have options for “workations”, smaller, informal affairs without the paraphernalia of wellness routines. “It is not enough to come to a wellness retreat, …
The coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the Dutch labor market, not only for what jobs are available, but also on the perks offered. "Working from home", "sabbatical", and "flexible hours" are terms now used much more often on vacancies, according to job site Indeed, which compared the secondary employment conditions in current vacancies to similar vacancies last year, …
