How to avoid digital burnout in the workplace
During Mental Health Awareness week, one of our newest clients, Just Ask Max, the first digital well-being platform, offers advice on how employees can avoid digital burnout. Reduce digital distractions We’re bombarded with so many notifications across all our devices that it’s almost impossible to stay focused. On average, we check our emails every 37 […]
Mental Health Awareness… Are we really paying attention?
“The millisecond my hands left the rail, it was an instant regret…” These are the words of Kevin Briggs, a survivor of attempted suicide. The BuzzFeed video is just a small insight into how someone’s mental health can develop into an illness and eventually be a risk to life, but those words stayed with me […]
Smith Square Special: Election results and what they mean
Mayoral Results As widely predicted, Sadiq Khan (Labour) won his second term as Mayor of London rather comfortably. He won 55.5% of the popular vote after heading into a run-off with Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey. In third place was Green Party candidate, Sian Berry. Further down the scoresheet were the Liberal Democrats who lost their […]
Super Thursday: History repeats in Gloucestershire – Tories hold firm
After eleven years in National government, the Conservatives at all tiers of local government in Gloucestershire would typically have closed their eyes and waited for the inevitable electoral kicking. But these are not normal times with the Labour Party fighting Tory tanks on northern lawns and the Lib-Dems still flatlining in Westminster. The Conservatives in […]
Super Thursday: Conservative Wiltshire ship sails to victory
As the drama played out along England’s ‘Red Wall’, most results in areas already dominated by the Conservatives had an air of calm. Little was going to capsize the party in Wiltshire, where the Tories had maintained a secure grip on power since 2009 – when the authority was first created. Although some choppy waters […]
Super Thursday: Historic Green surge moves party neck-and-neck with Labour in Bristol
With the key prizes of the West of England Combined Authority and Bristol Mayor positions under their belt, the last victory for Labour to secure was repeating their success in 2016 and reseizing an overall majority of elected members on the council. This hat-trick looked unlikely. Observers at the mayoral count saw clear signs that […]
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 at JBP
Keeping our people brilliant It’s been a difficult and challenging time for more than twelve months and every one of us have had to change our lives and adjust the way we work. For many, working from home has been a rewarding and beneficial experience. In a world where we all experience time poverty & […]
Mayoral Elections, Sleaze Scandal and India in need
Boris denies sleaze allegations Leading the week are allegations that the PM said: “let bodies pile high in their thousands” in reference to avoiding a third national lockdown. He and his allies are denying the allegations. The trouble is, not many people believe the Prime Minister, after all, he does have a checkered history of […]
Elections in Wiltshire: more than meets the eye?
While some elections in the region may be getting more attention than others from political aficionados, plenty is going on with other councils throughout the southwest, Wiltshire being one such authority. The Conservatives will be confident that they can maintain their hold on the council amid strong opposition locally regarding the county’s scale of […]
Green New Deal, an Indian variant and fears for European football
Boris cancels trip to India Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled a scheduled trip to India this week after the emergence of a new variant in the country was linked to India’s recent surge in Covid cases. The country has been reporting over 200,000 cases per day since the middle of April, the capital Delhi […]