Job stress has become a major problem in the world, so much so that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has labeled it as the “global epidemic of the 21st century”. That’s why resilience is so important to the modern office worker. Here are five ways to stay resilient at work. 1 Be mindful […]

Award-winning food chain Benugo has launched a new delivery service in London and to celebrate, it’s offering city-based PAs 30% off until Friday, 8 July. Benugo has developed its new delivery menu to create sharing boxes and platters perfect for catering intimate breakfast meetings or all-day conferences, with an interesting mix of options from breakfast […]

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on helpful apps. We focus on a variety of products that are useful for work, personal use, or both, providing our own thoughts on the apps and what you can do with them. This week we’re taking a step toward mindfulness with an iOS game called Zirkel. An intro […]

Leading UK hotel owner and operating company the Arora Group hosted a formal ceremony at the new InterContinental London – The O2 on 5 July to mark the official opening of the luxury hotel, located adjacent to The O2 arena. Founder and Chairman of the Arora Group Surinder Arora was joined by special guests Sir […]

The latest hot drinks survey from the Office Coffee Company reveals an even greater shift in office workers demanding a choice of hot drinks from their employer. Over the past two years, surveys by the Office Coffee Company have revealed more and more offices are making their hot drinks with a filter machine, coffee pod machine, or […]

Embarrassing situations are a fact of office life. We spend so much time at work that we’re bound to encounter a faux pas at some point. But Kit Out My Office found that meeting room mix-ups are one of the leading causes of embarrassing situations. The office furniture company polled 2,659 British workers and found […]

Three quarters of British parents will have to split their leave this summer and one in 10 will be forced to go away without their partner, according to research from Nationwide Savings. On the build up to the school summer holidays, Nationwide’s third national survey of 2,000 working parents reveals the many struggles they face […]

You’re invited to join the PA Life team and a group of your fellow PAs for an evening of networking, cocktails and canapés at Strada Riverside (More London) next Monday, 11 July from 6pm-8pm. Strada is a group of contemporary Italian restaurants serving simple, freshly prepared dishes using the finest and freshest ingredients. As well […]

The PA Expo is the only free-to-attend event in the North of England that brings together executive support professionals from around the UK to take advantage of ample networking opportunities and to benefit from meeting with leading professionals in the industry. The PA Expo attendees will have the opportunity to meet with more than 150 exhibitors, […]

Companies that have implemented a programme for the strategic management of meetings (SMM) say their programmes are successful, though they also say there is still more work to do. The key benefits of an SMM programme are greater transparency of spend, cost reductions, improved compliance, risk mitigation and, ultimately, improved effectiveness of their meetings and […]

Skyline Worldwide continues to go from strength to strength, as demonstrated by the serviced apartment provider’s announcement of the mid-July opening of Carlow House, a new development situated in the midst of the area where the Camden Town King’s Cross/Euston and Regent’s Park districts meet. Carlow House, a former Edwardian-era warehouse converted to loft-style living […]

Nearly half of all employees say recruitment freezes have left them feeling under-resourced and under-staffed at work, leading to increased stress, research by MetLife Employee Benefits shows. Its study found 46% of employees believe their organisation has not recruited enough since the economic downturn, with 40% saying workplace stress would be reduced if employers took […]

Join the PA Life team and your fellow PAs for an evening of networking, canapés and drinks with a sample of corporate events at Bruton Place PizzaExpress in Mayfair, London on 19 July from 6pm-8pm. PizzaExpress is a restaurant group with more than 460 locations across the UK and over 40 overseas in Europe, Hong […]

Teams and individuals from across Yorkshire celebrated at last night as the winners of 18 categories were announced at the Yorkshire PA of the Year Awards, held at The Pavilion, Leeds United Football Ground – a ceremony headlined by former PA to John Lennon, May Pang and BBC Look North’s Tanya Arnold. Melanie Richardson, EA […]

It’s hard to believe June has come and gone and we’re now moving into July. This week has been fun for the PA Life team as we catch up on feedback from last week’s PA Life Training Day. We attended last night’s Yorkshire PA Awards ceremony, where we met some fabulous new friends and got […]

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on helpful apps. We focus on a variety of products that are useful for work, personal use, or both, providing our own thoughts on the apps and what you can do with them. This week’s spotlight: Dropbox. An intro to Dropbox Many of you will have heard of Dropbox […]

Rather than slipping quietly into retirement, managers should create new opportunities toward the end of their careers, Professor Mary Dean Lee from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University suggests. Professor Lee and her research team interviewed 100 executives and managers who had recently retired or were actively considering it and HR professionals from 24 […]

Being at work while you are ill may not be such a bad thing after all, suggests a new report on so-called ‘presenteeism’ by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES). The report challenges the idea that workers have to be 100% fit before going back to work and argues that the workplace can have a […]