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ShutterstockThere are days when it’s hard to face work, even when you aren’t physically sick. Should you take a day off for your mental health? If you do, should you be honest about it when informing your manager? If you work for an organisation or in a team where you feel safe to discuss mental health challenges, you are fortunate. Despite all the progress made in understanding and talking about mental health, stigma and prejudices are still prevalent enough to prevent many of us from willingly letting bosses and coworkers know when we are struggling. Mental health challenges come in...

Photographs by Sinna NasseriDo you like being by yourself ? How do you experience your own company? It’s a fundamental human question. I’d invited my friend John—razor intellect, gamma-ray eyeballs—to drive across America with me, to take a trip into America, but John was immobilized by difficulties with his teeth. So I was alone. Alone for 10 days at the wheel of a sky-blue 2009 Toyota Camry—my son’s car, which I was driving back from Los Angeles to our home in Boston because he was taking a leave of absence from college.Alone, which has its advantages. I made the rules, I...

A wrap skirt is always a stylishly stylish option – from a casual cotton skirt to a long satin skirt that is perfect for a finer dinner or a night out. A model in which you are guaranteed to be successful. Style the skirt with a t-shirt and you have the ultimate look for all summer days off, or why not wear it to work? Pinterest One of the most enchanting aspects of a wrap skirt is its sheer versatility. Whether you’re aiming for a casual daytime look, a chic office ensemble, or a glamorous evening attire, a stylish wrap skirt...

If you saw our annual pumpkin harvest earlier in the year you saw that we pulled in a modest 84.5kg worth of this autumnal vegetable. Most of which is currently sitting on our laundry bench; not the most convenient place to have it but our house is small (intentionally) and we’re yet to be able to build a shed big enough for all our projects – thanks RBA for the eleven year high interest rates and continuous rate rises since we moved to our acre. Anywhoo… I’d take a guess that most people’s go-to recipe for an excess of pumpkin...

By Tom Conway Workers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice on the job. The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them. But they stood together, believed in themselves, and achieved a historic victory that’s reverberating throughout the South. About 1,400 workers at the electric bus manufacturer voted overwhelmingly this spring to join the United Steelworkers (USW), reflecting the rise of collective power in a part of the country where bosses and right-wing politicians long contrived to foil it. “It’s just time for a change,” explained Rinardo...