Health and wellness means more this year than in many years past and the Philips UV-C Disinfection Box from Philips is a great way to ensure personal items are germ-free. The company reports that its UV-C disinfection box, fitted with Philips’ UV-C light sources, can inactivate SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) on surfaces by more than 99% to below detectable levels, … [More]
Meditate to Mitigate Stress & Burnout
Incorporating breathwork meditation sessions into a corporate wellness program is a great way to improve mental wellness across the company and break free from the toxic hustle culture. Create Meditation tailors customized, one-on-one meditation sessions for entrepreneurs and business leaders and group sessions for entire companies. Sessions combine breathwork, personalized … [More]
Regeneration via Headset
There’s no time like the present to invest in tomorrow, which means taking control of our health today. The Cove headset and companion IOS app are a great way to track our health and improve our body’s regeneration through sleep and relaxation. Cove is a wearable technology that uses gentle vibrations to mimic human touch, providing feelings of calm so the body and mind … [More]
Return-to-Office Benefit: Foodja
Workplace restaurant delivery and catering platform Foodja recently launched Foodja Cafe, an employee lunch program designed to encourage employees to return to the office. Offering a reliable and cost-effective workplace benefit, Foodja Cafe allows employees to order their own customized meals from their favorite local restaurants. It has seen great success as employers adopt … [More]
Coffeegrams Personalized
Cafe Emporos offers easy-to-use hand-drip coffee filters as coffeegrams — envelopes containing pour-over coffee that can be personalized with a message, logo, company name or photo. Based in Goodyear, the online coffee shop ships within the United States. Started in 2015 with coffee only — which it sources from Uganda, Ethiopia and Colombia — Café Emporos has since added tea … [More]
Office as Gym?
FlexCycle Under-the-Desk Exercise Bike from LifePro allows people to make the most of their home office and other seating space. This under-the-desk bike is easy on the joints and makes squeezing some aerobic exercise into one’s day a breeze. Included with the bike are optional resistance bands that hook up to the desk bike, so users can up their office workout instantly — … [More]
Mailers with a Clean Environmental Footprint
With consumers increasing tasking note of excess plastic packaging, companies can boost their brand image (and provide another point of pride to their employees) by using compostable mailers. Tishwish offers a line of zero-waste mailers that are sturdy, customizable and 100% compostable, made from bio-based polymer (from corn) and completely CORNpostable. Among their other … [More]
Cool Systems for the Hot Season
A comfortable workplace environment is a must-have asset for businesses, which is why we recommend businesses strategically prepare their commercial HVAC systems for the hot summer season. During the beautiful winter and spring months in Arizona, it’s easy for business owners to neglect their HVAC systems, but that’s actually the recommended time to schedule a routine … [More]
Virtually Where?
Virtual meetings have become a staple of business life, and participants join from their home office or living room or kitchen. But they don’t have to show that location in their background. Some virtual meeting programs allow a user to upload an image from the computer to virtually place as a background. It may look great as long as the person doesn’t move but then … [More]
Shine a Light on Sanitation
Purification, LLC is an innovative, Tempe-based company that’s harnessing the power of CDC-approved UV-C lights to disinfect air and surface contaminants, reduce spore activation and kill airborne pathogens through environmental sterilization and HVAC air sterilization. The one-of-a-kind technology can be used on any surface to sanitize homes, schools or businesses in a way … [More]
Gift Cards Support Local
A popular employee gift for many employers is a gift card. Several local restaurants have special offers this holiday season to make that budget item go a bit further. Grimaldi’s Pizzeria Grimaldi’s will give a $10 bonus card with purchase of a $50 gift card and a $20 bonus card with purchase of a $100 gift card, online and in-store (excluding Grimaldi’s Pizzeria To-Go) … [More]
Workspace, InnerSpace
From symptom surveys to cubicles to cleaning protocols to new apps, COVID-19 has business leaders scrambling to implement a myriad of strategies that will enable the safe return of their employees to the workplace. In order to return, companies must improve their cleaning practices, ensure social distancing is possible, and put employee safety first while also balancing … [More]
Air Purification System Fights Airborne COVID-19 Virus and More
With indoor air quality more essential than ever with the infectious COVID-19 still active worldwide, eradicating the virus while it's airborne is crucial to mitigating its transmission. Hummingbird EQ, an air purification system from cleantech company Energy Cloud, was proven to capture and deactivate the airborne COVID-19 virus on the first airflow pass through the system by … [More]
Interiorscapes as Capital Expenditure
Businesses can incorporate greenery such as plants and moss walls for their worksites as capital expenditures. Admitting it’s unconventional, Plant Solutions founding principal Joe Zazzera says, “The use of the budgeting tool is a great way to integrate plants and their benefits into an office environment as we all look for ways to make our employees happy, feel safe and … [More]
Vaccinated – To Be or Not to Be
Some people might call it common sense, to use a term that, when invoked in conversation, is usually in the context of discussing something we feel is so painfully obvious that it ought to be commonly — that is, universally — understood, but isn’t. We’ve got an asset that many places in the world are crying out for. But its existence has spawned a tremendous divide between … [More]
Cooling Gadget for Hot Summer Workplace Safety
A report in Yale Climate Connections indicates that, according to NCEI’s annual temperature outlook, “the year 2021 is 96% likely to rank among the 10 warmest years on record and 85% likely to rank among the eight warmest years on record” and the CDC tells us there are more than 600 deaths attributed to extreme heat conditions in the United States every year. Potentially of … [More]
COVID Verified: Bracelets Bolster Awareness
New purple bracelets let the world know the wearer has been vaccinated and is safe to be around as part of a global #IAMCOVIDVERIFIED campaign. With three successful COVID-19 vaccines currently in distribution worldwide, health experts say the end of the pandemic is finally within reach. COVID Verified is a new program founded in Scottsdale that aims to support global … [More]
Eye-to-Eye Impact
Eye contact is essential for human connection, every time you make eye contact, you get a small dose of oxytocin, drawing you in. Effective eye contact can be instrumental to someone pitching a proposal to the executive team, landing a deciding sale for the month, nailing the interview for a dream job or compassionately connecting with a patient. Amazingly, research shows it … [More]
