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Where does Blue Monday stand after a blue year?
By Robyn D’Arcy
Wunderman Thompson’s Senior Analyst Robyn D’Arcy analyses the year’s ‘most depressing’ day and its role in 2021.
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Rest up and power forward
Nina Stephenson-Camps offers some hints and tips about how you can pause, reflect and integrate growth into your daily life.
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A view from Generation COVID
By Bryan Obonyo
The industry has adapted quickly to the pandemic, yet, as Bryan Obonyo, Business Development Executive at BLITZWORKS writes, this speed and commitment is lacking when it comes to diversity.
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Strong body, strong mind
By Uzma Afridi
Uzma Afridi, Head of Careers at NABS offers the organisation’s tips for looking after yourself this year, from celebrating small wins to connecting with people around you.
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The stigma around Black mental health still exists
Rianna Patterson, Founder of Dominica Dementia Foundation explores the stigma that still exists towards Black mental health, highlighting why we need to see the BAME community represented in the media.
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Now is the time for our industry to reset
Stephen Woodford, CEO of the Advertising Association on the importance of resetting UK advertising for the better.
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Why putting mental health first is the best New Year’s resolution
By Ita Waller
Ita Waller, HR Director at UNLIMITED on deciding to train all agency staff to be Mental Health Champions and why that holds even more importance during the ongoing pandemic.
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Marketing and PR jobs still failing to capitalise on flexibility
By Nicola Kemp
We may well have spent 2020 waxing lyrical about the revolution afoot in the workplace, yet nearly four in five marketing, media and PR jobs advertised in the UK make no reference to flexible working.
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The importance of diversion: How foraging got me through lockdown
Clare Hutchinson, Executive Strategy Director at Havas on finding a moment of escapism and getting lost in the woods.
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How our personal and collective experiences of illness are making health and wellness more important than ever
By Anya Jones
Anya Jones, Senior Strategy Director of Consulting at Iris writes about how a life changing diagnosis made her reassess health and wellbeing, and how the current crisis is forcing us all to do the same.
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timeTo research underlines advertising industry’s complacency on #MeToo
By Nicola Kemp
Industry research underlines the need to push for education and action to ensure the eradication of sexual harassment in advertising.
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Not The Year Ahead: There’s no place like home
By Alec Samways
In the spirit of 2020, and feeling entirely unable to predict what happens next, Alec Samways CEO of Splendid Communications offers up some current observations peppered with hopeful, open-ended vision.
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Not the Year Ahead: Sustainability
With or without a pandemic, conscious consumers are still calling for changes that will help them make better purchasing decisions in line with their values, writes Georgina Wilson-Powell, Founder of pebble.