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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
High Stress: 50% of U.S. adults lack the time they need to do the things they want. 75% are sometimes stressed in their daily lives, including 33% who experience stress “frequently. Time is in particularly short supply for parents of children under 18 and people who are employed. Stress correlates ...read more
Tags: Workplace Balance
Desktop Dining: In ’03 66% of American workers ate meals in odd bites around work or personal multi-tasks. We eat at our desks to save time, save money, take care of personal business and occasionally to take a break and relax finds an ADA Survey. Doing anything else while we’re eating may be ...read more
Forms Cost Americans fill out 100 billion forms every year. According to analyst firm CAP Ventures; each form costs about 5¢ to print and almost $1 to process. ...read more
Worker Satisfaction: A recent Gallup Poll shows workers are most satisfied with their relationships with coworkers and the physical safety conditions of their workplaces, and are least satisfied with the amount of work-related stress and their incomes. Over the past year, workers have grown more ...read more
Soaring Health Costs According to a Watson Wyatt Worldwide survey, employers are paying twice as much for health care today as they were just 5 years ago. Even more sobering, they predict costs will double ...read more
Spam eats $4 billion a year in corporate productivity. (Foster Letter ...read more
In a recent study among employed adults, 47% listed time-management as the #1 stressor in their lives. (Foster ...read more
On average, Americans work 42 hours, Canadians 41 hours and Britons 39 hours per week. (Foster Letter ...read more
Americans average about 7 hours of sleep a night, little changed over the past decade. But more people today say they don’t get enough sleep than said so 15 ...read more
The average U.S. worker spends 48 minutes commuting to and from work each day. (Foster Letter ...read more
U.S. adults average 6.9 hours of sleep a night according to the National Sleep Foundation. (Foster ...read more
Best Christian Places To Work: The 2005 survey winners for the Media Category are Zondervan (150 or more employees) and Howard Publishing (149 or fewer ...read more
Tags: Workplace Integrity
Stress costs businesses $300 billion every year, double the cost 20 years ago reports American Institute of Stress. ...read more
Less Flex: The number of employees with flexible work schedules is dropping even as research shows non-traditional hours can enhance productivity. The number of full-time workers on flexible schedules dropped from 29 million in ‘01 to 27.4 million in ‘04, according to a U.S. Department of Labor a ...read more
Costly Interruptions from emails, instant messages, the Web, and phone are decreasing U.S. business productivity by $588 billion annually finds a Basix study. Interruptions to workflow can cost the average knowledge worker ...read more
Flex Time: Almost 29 million full-time wage-and-salary workers, or nearly 29%, have schedules that allow them to vary the time they begin and end their workday while working 40 hour weeks, according to the Labor Department. Flexible schedules are most common among executives, administrators and ...read more
Working Longer: Research indicates that people currently in their 50’s plan to continue working after they reach retirement age. Labor force participation among workers aged 55 to 64 increased 2% in ‘01, according to the Center for ...read more
Scaling Back: A small but growing number of men are scaling back their work in spite of the soft job market. 10% of human resource executives say they are seeing a growing number of high-potential men leave their companies or decline a promotion because of work-life demands. 40% of working fathers ...read more
Overworked: The average employee in France puts in 1,459 hours per year compared to 1,707 for Brits, 1,809 for the Japanese and an exhausting 1,815 for ...read more