Take part in our poll to let us know if you have a healthy work/life balance?
Are you expected to put your job before your health?
- Yes
- 22
- No
- 16
The charity estimates businesses lose £8 billion of productivity a year as a result of heart and circulatory conditions and is calling on employers to give employees 10 minutes a day to prepare a healthy meal or do some exercise.
Having a stressful job and working overtime were cited as the main reasons for people snacking throughout the day, smoking more cigarettes, grabbing a takeaway on the way home and reaching for the bottle.
What about your office – does your boss promote a good work/life balance or do you even struggle to find the time to take a walk at lunch time to buy a salad?
Is there always cake around because it’s someone’s birthday or do you have a biscuit culture? Let us know in the comments and tell us what your favourite biscuit is while you’re at it.
