Well Good co-founder Dan Willis EMPLOYEES are experiencing significantly more stress, anxiety and depression in their jobs – and the trend has accelerated since the pandemic began. That is the finding of a Bournemouth-based company dedicated to using artificial intelligence and data to help mental health. Well Good says the problem affects productivity, culture and profits as well as the wellbeing of the staff involved. The company, which worked with the mental health charity Mind to develop its approach, has launched its first digital product and is signing up a range of companies for a pilot programme. Adam McNichol and Dan Willis founded Well Good in 2019 after experiencing mental health issues themselves in senior roles at advertising, digital and creative agencies. They said they wondered why many companies were not looking at how their culture and policies affected their teams.
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The Byron Bay Comedy Festival has announced its 2021 program, with a long list of comedy stars coming to the area next month.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki proves he’s more than just an incredibly knowledgeable source on all things he’s also a comedy scientist.
After presenting at schools during the day, Dr Karl will open the festival with a blistering brain-boggling set. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki brings his comedy side to Byron Bay.
Comedy superstars Glen Robbins and Dave O’Neil have developed one of those off stage comedy friendships that comes to life on the stage.
Brit Comedy for Byron
Dan Willis brings Best of British back to the Byron Comedy Festival. It was a sellout last year, with the audience confirming it as one of the favourite shows of the program. Dan is back – this time with Rory Lowe and John Flynn, and spoke with
The Echo…
Coming back to working again…
Coming back to working again I had no idea people actually had proper jobs, that had been paying them wages, what kind of strange world do we live in, that this happens? I thought
everyone just bounced from venue to venue, telling stupid stories… but apparently such things as ‘teachers’ and ‘accountants’ exist, this shouldn’t have really been a surprise to me, my wife is a teacher. I am, of course, an idiot…
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Yazz Ahmed –
La Saboteuse (Naim): “Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.” (https://yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/la-saboteuse-2) The full release is now available and the mixes and performances are quite wonderful throughout. Click here to listen to several songs from this exceptional blend.