Often, we’re so busy with everyday life and thinking that we don’t take time to get perspective. Within our heads, almost constantly, many people relate to the idea of a running commentary. Where does that voice come from?

Today’s society is unequivocally centred on supply and demand, consumerism and capitalism. Not that capitalism in a corporate sense is a bad thing, as we live in the most advanced civilisation to have evolved in human time.

In the UK, it is reported that 1 in 4 females experience life and work-affecting symptoms of the menopause. Campaigners in the UK want similar flexibility, awareness and legislation to protect women experiencing a difficult menopause to allow for time off work, counselling and changes in shift patterns, something currently not addressed in the current system.

We recently highlighted the importance of the workplace culture in the construction of effective work environments. Indeed, just as each of us have an impact on the construct of productivity within the workplace, so to do our stress levels and pressures.