We've been going through a bit of a mid-year review and as I was looking at the metrics about our HR Blog, it became very clear that you - our audience, our community, has a very broad range of interest in all aspects of HR. One could make some pretty interesting assumptions about what HR Professionals are interested in learning about in order to stay on top of what is important to both business and employees in a rapidly changing workplace environment. As part of our reflection on the last financial year, we decided to put together a list of the top 10 Blog posts (based on popularity / readership) from the last 12 months.

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The popularity of last week's post on 'how to stress less' is an indication of the level of interest around stress in the workplace. How many HR Professionals out there are aware of the neuroscience of stress versus success? Stress isn’t just a major contributor to illness and disease, stress hormones actually erode higher-brain networks. The result? Essentially the effects of chronic stress will inhibit you from succeeding fully at life. Prolonged periods of high levels of stress mean that your stress response system is on high alert, releasing toxic hormones into your system. These hormones effect your ability to perform, produce and ultimately, to enjoy your life.

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