Protection: Getting the balance just right

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Graham Harvey, managing director of protection at Axa, on fresh research outlining the importance of staying healthy at work…

For many people, autumn is a time tinged with a mixture of holiday blues and relief that the children are back at school. But, for most of us, we’re back into the swing of things at work and our holidays probably now seem like a distant memory, apart from that fading tan which reminds us that we did get to soak up some sun at some point during the summer. Autumn is the time when we push ahead and workloads tend to become busier to meet deadlines before the end of the year. Increased risk For the UK, which is one of the hardest working countries in Europe, people work long hours a...

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