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This isn t convenient : HSBC worker s heart attack prompts advice on avoiding burnout COULD you be working so hard that you’re approaching a serious health crisis? When Dorset man Jonathan Frostick was suffering a heart attack, his first thought was about a meeting with his manager. “This isn’t convenient,” he remembered thinking, in a LinkedIn post that has gone viral and been discussed around the world. Mr Frostick’s experience has heightened awareness of the risk of overwork – at a time when working from home has blurred the boundaries between work and domestic life. Dorset wellbeing experts and business leaders have been sharing their thoughts on how to spot the warning signs of impending burnout – and how to avoid it. ....
Jonny Frostick s post. Picture: LinkedIn The experience was familiar for Paul Tansey, managing director of Ferndown-based marketing agency Intergage. Around 15 years ago, at the age of 41, he was working 16-hour days, with the weight of the business on his shoulders as he combined the roles of managing director and sales director. More than once, he was still working when the morning birdsong started. Paul Tansey of Intergage A routine medical check for the company’s insurer changed all that. After measuring his blood pressure, the nurse said there must be something wrong with the machine and got out another one. ....
The experience struck a chord with Paul Tansey, managing director of Dorset marketing agency Intergage. He was working 16-hour days when a routine health check for an insurance policy dangerously high blood pressure. A nurse told him to cancel all plans and go to hospital, where a doctor said: “I’d rather roll the dice every morning than have your chance of a heart attack or stroke.” “It’s all too easy for anybody and everybody – but particularly midlife males with responsible jobs seem to be the worst culprits for lacking perspective,” he said. Renee Clarke, owner of Work Well Hub, which helps organisations with their workplace health, says: “Common signs of stress are increased heartbeat, shallow breathing, headaches, musculoskeletal issues or a change in sleeping patterns or negative behaviours such as increasing alcohol. ....
On the morning after, we look at some of the effects the Budget could have in Dorset.
HELP FOR HOSPITALITY AND RETAIL Dorset’s hospitality industry got some of the key concessions it asked for from the chancellor. The reduced five per cent VAT rate for hospitality and tourism will stay in place util September 30 and will then go up to 12.5 per cent before reaching its original 20 per cent next April. Alcohol duty will also stay as it is. For Andy Lennox, founder of the Wonky Table group that grew up to represent Dorset bars, restaurants and events companies in lockdown, that was the key concession. “We’re standing here with shattered balance sheets, heavily in debt, with little to no cash reserves,” he said. ....
The Premier League club Ireland might have had: an oral history of the Dublin Dons More than 25 years ago, an Irish consortium led by Eamon Dunphy tried to buy Wimbledon FC and move it to Dublin. Some of the key players recall the story, and wonder what Irish football might look like now had it happened. Gavin Cooney By Gavin Cooney Sunday 28 Feb 2021, 9:29 AM Feb 28th 2021, 9:29 AM 25,613 Views 16 Comments In the mid 1990s, Eamon Dunphy helped to put together a consortium of Irish businessmen to launch an audacious plan: they would buy the struggling London club Wimbledon FC and move them to Dublin, from where they would continue to play in the Premier League. ....