It is okay not to feel 100%, we’re in a third lockdown, we have to revise, work from home and our social interaction is limited. However, I have some good tips and tricks to make you feel a little more 2021 positive.
Leeds Announced as 22nd Hardest Working City in the UK
A brand new online tool has been created to show which cities are the hardest working throughout the UK. It uses factors like average hours worked, unemployment rate and commute time, to determine the working […]
Why Did Thomas Cook Collapse?
Last Monday, Thomas Cook – the 178-year-old travel company which had survived two world wars and the great depression – collapsed. This left 150,000 people stranded abroad and many more thousands of Thomas Cook staff […]
Labour 32-Hour Week Isn’t All it Seems
Do we all work too much? Is there anything we can do to work less? Labour’s new policy commitment of a 32 hour week has the potential to reach right into the heart of working-class […]
It’s Time to Start Talking About Mental Health in the Workplace
One in 4 people in the UK are affected by serious mental health issues at some point in their lives. It’s time that businesses start taking some responsibility. The Gryphon investigates which companies are making […]
Part-time job ideas
Being a student can be very expensive, so what do you do when you’re strapped for cash but also for time? Looking for a part-time job alongside your studies can seem overwhelming. Academic and social […]
How the Colours You Wear Affect Your Career
The power of colours over our moods are now well known, with research showing that different colours can affect us physically, changing our heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. This science has been applied to […]
Art | OVERTIME: Art and the Office – Seize's exploration of a career in art
Image: Seize OVERTIME pitches the bureaucratic environment of the archetypal office against the demiurgic context of the gallery. By allowing artists as cultural commentators to pick apart the office as a workplace and as a […]
Blogs | Why You Should Follow Your Childhood Dreams
In my second year of primary school, the teachers made a video of all the pupils, asking them what they wanted to do when they were older. I wanted to be an actress. Others wanted […]
Blogs | Five Reasons Why Parents Are The Best Students
1/ We will never be late to a lecture because we have ‘overslept’. ‘Oversleeping’ is an alien concept. A lie in is something we have only heard about in fiction. We seem to have a […]
Comment | Zero Hours, Zero Tolerance
Controversial “zero hour contracts” are fast becoming popular with employers in order to make businesses more cost effective. In any other argument (except sexism of course), I would try to remain impartial and unbiased. However, […]
Motivation (the lack of)
My continuous mantra is as follows: Now, at 3pm, having done nothing but exist pointlessly all day, is not the moment to start work. After several pre-essay weeks of this it’s begun to occur to […]