A Funny Business…humour in the workplace.
Have you heard the one about the unhappy worker who was too stressed to come into work? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but the punchline is certainly no laughing matter – figures from the Health and Safety Executive suggest that around 13 million working days are lost each year due to work-related stress alone.
That’s why businesses could do worse than remember the old maxim ‘laughter is the best medicine’.
