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Career starters or jobseekers will likely associate good jobs with high a salary. While a good salary is ideal, other aspects of the job are overlooked. When you work 24/7, you’ve to consider these other things: 

Career growth

Career growth refers to appraisals, promotions, and salary increases that can improve the employee’s life and career trajectory. A healthy career growth won’t you in the same position after a year or more. For example, if you can’t get promotions from the dishwasher to cook even after showing your skills and effort, it’s worth leaving that company for good and going for the next opportunity.    

Flexibility

Flexibility means the ability of employers and employees to adapt to changes. Employers can offer a flexible working environment involving:

• Work from home 

• Condensed work schedule with additional working days on top of the regular weekend day-offs.

Employees can demonstrate flexibility to their companies by:

• Learning new software or skills that can improve work efficiency and reduce hiring expenses.

• Offering to help a colleague to finish a deadline.

• Offering to cover the colleague’s duties while he or she is ill or on holiday

• Postponing a planned work to respond to an urgent task
   

Health

Health is wealth. You can’t have your goals if your body is on the verge of shutting down due to serious health issues.

As an employer, you can promote health through the following:

• If you’re running catering services for employees, give them healthy foods and drinks.

• If you have in-house employees and you’ve got a budget, you can offer them to use your mini-gym with a treadmill and weights. 

Employees can maintain their health through:

• Working with enough break time.

• Eating healthy meals. 

Liking what you do

You can be more efficient or productive when you like what you’re doing. If it’s the opposite, you can find yourself hating waking up and rushing to go home with a Bundy clock. Reasons vary why employees may grow tired or bored by what they’re doing - reasons include - working in a toxic environment and toxic person.

Safety

The safety of your environment can affect your peace of mind and prospects of how you can succeed in your life. Some industries, companies, and professions have more risks than others. If you believe that you can find a better job and pay than your current work, you should start finding a new job. 

Employers in construction, fire safety, and smelting industries can improve safety through:

• Mandatory use of safety suits

• Weekly or monthly safety meetings

• Employing safety inspectors  

Employees can reduce the risks they face by:

• Reviewing safety rules and procedures.

• Wearing safety suits

• Studying safety courses 

Workers in the information industry (content writers, graphic designers and programmers) are also at risk of developing unhealthy habits and illnesses. Setting for 8 hours or more a day, and eating unhealthy foods can increase belly fat. Without exercise, you have no way of burning fats in your body. Excessive fat can lead to heart disease and other serious medical conditions. 

Recreation 

The saying “all work with no play makes Jack a dull boy” means that a person will become bored and eventually tired without time off. A person’s motivation plummets within seconds of exhaustion and boredom.

Employers can improve work and life balance by:

• Allowing more time off without affecting productivity

• Conducting parties with special food and games

• Promoting extracurricular activities such as visiting nature sites and vacations

Challenges and boredom

Challenges refer to varying levels of stress (low and high). They also pertain to changing deadlines, methods to finish the task, learning, and rewards. Boredom points to the repetitive activities that can numb your body and mind. It’s likely that if your job has few or no challenges and all boredom, you’ve less chance to move up the career ladder.

For employers, to reduce boredom and repetition,

• Promote and encourage learning among employees.

• Provide learning opportunities.

• Provide a safe and learning-conducive environment

For employees, to reduce boredom:

• Collaborate with others

• Set new challenges and goals

• Get a normal sleep

• Take a vacation

• Modify your workspace