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Week 5 - Intervention Part 3

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Week 3

Location: Elephant & Castle Station

Time: 09.50-10:15

  By screen-printing on newsprints that’s on top of the metro simply didn’t work because of two possible reasons:

- These prints weren’t mass-produced

- Didn’t look like a newspaper

  But it is clear that commuters here wanted to read the metro and nothing more. What was interesting when observing is that some people would react but won’t take our copy. We thought the cleaner would throw it away but got confused and piled it underneath.

Here are videos of evidence (Filmed by Cloris):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01LzToI_s-w - Arranging our newspapers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIlVBWSxo6U - 2 Commuters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtsL62r_7sU - Cleaner

So we inserted Shana’s idea inside so they will notice once they open the metro.

(Photo by Sayeed)

Later that day, we went back to the station and noticed they were either taken.

According to a mental health charity called MIND, one in six UK employees experience anxiety/ depression & stress in the work place.

  Occupational stress can lead employees to make rash decisions.

Stress impairs concentration levels, which can have a negative impact on performance.

  Tiredness & low motivation have a draining effect on those who suffer stress and those who work around the stressed staff member.

  Source: http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/improving-the-work-life-balance-through-stress-reduction/

  Huffington Post also posts several stressed related information and range of remedies that can reduce stress.

  Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/stress-relief-tools-old-fashioned-remedies_n_3022241.html#slide=2193670

  ‘It's official; we are all under more stress today than any time in the past 20 years. So says the latest report from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills released recently.

While some stress can help us to raise our game and strive that little bit harder, too much stress reduces our quality of life, our productivity, and over the long term causes ill health and in extreme cases even death.

With the nation more stressed than ever before, knowing how to de-stress is a vital skill for success and for survival in your job and your life...’

More on this here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/peter-ryding/stress-10-quick-tips-to-stop-it_b_3365676.html