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Working from home: is that really allowed?

Surviving the heat at work; it's a recurring theme. Ideally, you would simply leave your work for what it is with these temperatures and sit on the beach. But the work has to be done anyway and you don't have many days off. Then get on with it. If you find the heat at your workplace unbearable, can you actually just decide to work from home? Or in another place? First of all, it really matters what kind of work you do. If you have a job in healthcare, construction or if you work with certain equipment, then working elsewhere will of course be a difficult story. But if you have work that you can do from anywhere, it is often up to you and your employer to make mutual agreements about working from home.   Your employment contract may contain agreements about work locations and working from home. In principle, what it says there is binding and you have to stick to what you and your employer have agreed upon. But if the work...
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Tensions at home: how do you deal with them at work?

The survey, which was conducted among 1,123 employees of various companies, showed that the loss of a loved one is the number one cause of absenteeism due to personal problems. In addition, it concerns, for example, informal care, financial problems, divorces/broken relationships and the combination of work and family. It is not always fair to tell the reason for the absenteeism, which in 15% of cases lasts longer than a month. To pay more attention to the consequences of private problems in the workplace, Zorg van de Zaak launched the campaign 'Do you know what's going on?' started. In doing so, the organization wants to make employers aware of the usefulness and necessity of discussing what is going on with employees privately. But dealing with private problems is of course not only a matter for the employer. You as an employee also have a role in this. What can YOU do? It may be that work is a distraction for you if things are not going well at home....
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This is why you are easily distracted and this is how you bring that focus back

There are so many stimuli coming at you today that it is sometimes very difficult to fully concentrate on your work. Recognizable? This means that you are easily distracted and so you can regain your focus. We get much less done than in the past, says neuropsychologist Mark Tigchelaar in his book On/Off. According to him, we lose more than two hours of working time per day due to a lack of focus.  How come? Tigchelaar, who has been dealing with the theme of focus for fifteen years, points out four main reasons for this in his book: 1. You get too few incentives Hey, what? Don't we get too many incentives? This may seem contradictory, but by nature people are open to many stimuli. In prehistoric times you had to be constantly on the lookout for, for example, approaching predators. As a result, your brain is focused on a multitude of stimuli and we are not used to focusing on one task. Instead, we look for stimuli ourselves. These can be ext...
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This is how you find a job without experience or diploma

You have just graduated and are applying to land your first job. Or you want to work in a certain direction in which you have absolutely no experience, and also do not have the right papers. You haven't had any really relevant jobs yet and so little to put on your resume. Do you think. How on earth are you ever going to find that job?  This is how you can handle it if you apply without experience. 1. Realize that organizations are looking for a person In the first place, it is good to realize that companies are not only looking for the right experience and papers, but also and perhaps especially for someone who suits them and the job in terms of person. The person is often much more important than what is written about your experience on paper. So take advantage of that and don't be put off by an extensive package of requirements; almost no one can do that anyway. 2. Map out what it takes for the position you want A first important step is to properly map out what - in add...
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