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Are you seeking more productive, more engaged, happier and healthier employees?

 Give them a break............

Celebrate Recess At Work Day!

- A part of any good Company Health and Wellness Initiative
 

Research shows that for people of all ages and in all fields, breaks are considered essential for satisfaction and alertness. Experimental research on memory and attention found that recall is improved when learning is spaced rather than presented all at once. Their findings are compatible with what is known about brain functioning: that attention requires periodic novelty, that the brain needs downtime to recycle chemicals crucial for long-term memory formation, and that attention involves 90- to 110-minute cyclical patterns throughout the day. - Toppino, Kasserman and Mracek, The Effect of Spacing Repetitions on the Recognition Memory of Young Children and Adults

And since research supports every good decision; and almost every organization is concerned with the Health and Wellness of their best resource - its people..................

The Board of Directors has declared that all employees should take a recess on June 19th! Laugh. Take a walk. Watch a movie. Spend some time with a fun teambuilding exercise. Cease from the day-to-day routine for just a bit.

And this means everyone – even the boss! Call it Team Building. Call it Employee Morale. Just make sure you call it fun.

Today is your day to create team spirit, engage employees, increase morale and share your fun side with the people you spend the majority of your life with. Participating in Recess At Work Day could also help improve mental and physical health, which might bring down insurance costs.

Recess at Work Day should be a part of every corporate Health and Wellness Initiative.

 

What is Recess?

Recess is a temporary cessation of the customary activities of an engagement, occupation, or pursuit. Kids need it. Courts take it. Everyone needs a recess. Today is the day the whole world should take one together.

So whether you're a big business or a small business; an entrepreneur or a student.......get out there today. For all you educators, do your part to tackle the Youth Obesity Epidemic plaguing our planet. Here is an opportunity for you and the students to become a bit more active and healthy.

Need ideas?

Can't come up with any creative ideas? How about one of the following:

• Organize a fun communications activity

• Create a company time capsule

• Exercise as a group

• Play some good old outdoor games like tag, jump rope, or Frisbee

• Do some volunteer/community work

• Take that team meeting to a coffee shop or an amusement park

• Visit a local park. Play a little, and brainstorm a lot; that next big idea might occur during recess

• Engage your group in a fun teambuilding event

• Take some time today to start learning a foreign language with your co-workers. (You'll be ready to transfer when your job is outsourced)

The possibilities are endless. Need more ideas? Check out 50 Ways To Have Fun at Work, Improve Employee Morale and Hopefully Not Get Fired.
 

Here is your mission:

• Enlist volunteers/participants

• Take 1/2 hour today to "Recess" from the usual. Design it as a Teambuilding session.

• Those who do not participate need to be reported to The Big Kid

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So you work for a Weenie?

What!?!? Your boss won't let you participate in Recess At Work Day? Or maybe you are the shy, bashful type and do not know how to suggest participation in this great event? Let us know. We'll call him/her and be annoying. We know that the last words they want to hear are hopscotch and jump rope. But words like employee morale, employee retention and productivity will get their attention. Free and no cost also usually perk up the ears of some cost conscious employers.

So email their name, email address and phone number to The Big Kid. We promise not to reveal our source. Cross our heart and hope to die. Or just tell the boss they need a course in how fun and games make everyone happier.

Do you need more information?

We thought this was a no-brainer!!!! You can work or build morale for one half hour and get paid either way? But just in case you're still not sure of the benefits....................... Click here!