Stay Healthy At Work
You probably spend the majority of your waking hours at work. These resources from Hill Physicians will help you manage work-related stress, create a less cluttered work environment and stay healthier even when you're away from the comforts of home.
Lessen Stress | Makeover Your Workspace | Prevent Colds & Flu |
Free Health Tips | Explore Tools for Your Health
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Lessen Your Stress At Work |
Everyone experiences workplace stress. Although you can't avoid stress while on the job, you can lessen it's impact. Our online videos, audio podcasts and printable tip sheets can help.
Stress Down Videos
Watch Hill Physicians wellness expert Rik Eberlin, Ph.D. demonstrate quick and easy ways to relieve day-to-day stress.
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Workplace Stress Relief Audio Podcasts
Listen as Hill Physicians' health educators explain how to release neck and shoulder tension, how to do simple yoga exercises at your desk and ways you can create a sense of inner calm even when work is intense.
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Whether you work in an office, a cubicle or a shared counter, what you're surrounded by each day can make a difference in how you feel and how you work.
Here are some tips and tools to give your workspace a "Healthy Makeover":
- Toss, File and Store: Cluttered workspaces = cluttered work days. Take time to organize your files and paperwork and dispose of all non-necessary items. Store everything in drawers, or overhead storage.
- Remove "Accessories": Clear out office toys, calendars and pictures to get back to a clean slate. Only keep those in good shape and with significant meaning.
- Choose a theme: A theme such as zen, outdoors, sports or modern, contemporary or minimalist decor style that best reflects you and your interests or hobbies will surround you with good feelings each time you get to work.
- Lighting: Consider a small lamp for more character and ambient light. It creates a more welcoming space and can help to reduce fatigue.
- Decorate: Place important photos in frames, add back items that fit your new style and consider a healthy plant that thrives with little or no outside sunlight. Position items so that they're viewable but not in your way.
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Staying healthy at work isn't always easy. When coworkers are sneezing and coughing around you, it may seem impossible, but if you follow one rule, you'll be less likely to join them:
. Keep a bottle of hand sanitizer at your desk. Wash or sanitize each time you cough or sneeze, after using common office equipment, such as copiers or fax machines and any other time your hands feel dirty.
If you do catch a bug, Hill Physicians has comprehensive information to help you get better fast in our Health Library. Bookmark our Cold Tips and Tricks page...
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Hill Physicians' extensive Health Library and Online Health Centers are always open. You can use our interactive symptom checker, or search for answers by ailment or condition.
Workers can also use our Health at Work Tips, with tip sheets to keep or share for clinical answers to your common health questions such as:
Get More Health at Work Tips
- Bookmark our Weekly Carrot page for fresh tips from our registered dietitian every week.
- Subscribe to our health e-newsletter. You pick the topics and we'll tailor a monthly update just for you. Subscribe today...
- Join our Mobile Mom Network for once-a-week text messages with wellness tips, meal ideas and ways to make work/life balance easier. Simply text "MORE" to 68255 to join.
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Explore Tools for Your Health |
The Your Health section of our site includes many of the above tools and much, much more. Our team of health educators, public health experts, and wellness professionals continue to build this wealth of information to help you get well, stay well and live well. Explore now...
When you become a Hill Physicians Member with one of our Partner HMOs, you receive even more tools as part of our Value Added Services.
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