How can you switch off this Christmas break so you can return to work in 2025, pumped and ready to rock and roll? We have a few suggestions!<\/p>\n
All year, you rack up 40 hours or more a week with your workmates. Over Christmas, you have time to hang out with friends, family, old travel buddies, former school mates \u2026 people you like being around or haven\u2019t seen in ages. Reach out and set something up! Not only is hanging out with friends fun, it also has some positive impacts on your life. Studies have shown that people with social support are less likely to experience mental illness. Social participation is also strongly linked to living a longer life and improving one\u2019s ability to deal with stressful situations.<\/p>\n
So get the gang around for drinks and nibbles, meet in a park for a barbie or play a cruisy round of mini golf. Talk, laugh, share stories and enjoy each other\u2019s company over a few cold ones \u2013 responsibly, of course!<\/p>\n
\u2018Tis the season to be jolly. \u2018Tis also the season for giving and while many of us will wake up Christmas morning and open presents around the tree, you might want to think of another kind of giving. At Appoint, we encourage all our team throughout the year to give back to the community. It makes the giver feel\u00a0so good!\u00a0<\/em>Get creative and have fun with it. You can even include the kids.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t absolutely need your smartphone for critical work communications, switch it off! (Or at least switch it to silent.) Shut down your social media notifications too. Stop compulsively checking your phone and enjoy what\u2019s around you. Talk to the people you\u2019re with, watch fireworks or parades without taking photos and really\u00a0soak in the atmosphere<\/em>\u00a0instead of feeling compelled to share it with an unseen virtual audience.<\/p>\n Getting away from your usual surroundings forces you to leave behind drudgery chores like housework, gardening and errands. If you can\u2019t manage a big family holiday, no worries! A weekend at the beach, chilling out in the hinterland or fun day trips to neighbouring towns can help clear the cobwebs and see you come back recharged for the new year.<\/p>\n We all want to have a fantastic Christmas and New Years so we can come back to work in January feeling fresh, rejuvenated and pumped for 2025. Spend your break doing meaningful activities with the people you care about. Rest up, eat well and have fun!<\/p>\n All of us at Appoint would like to wish you and yours a very merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How can you switch off this Christmas break so you can return to work in 2025, pumped and ready to rock and roll? We have a few suggestions! Connect with people you dig All year, you rack up 40 hours or more a week with your workmates. Over Christmas, you have time to hang out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","category-employee-wellbeing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15948,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14761\/revisions\/15948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appointrecruit.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Joy to the world! (ways to give back):<\/h2>\n
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Disconnect from tech<\/h2>\n
Get out of town<\/h2>\n