Celebrate diversity by wearing purple at your small business
This Friday is Wear It Purple Day, a day which celebrates the diversity of gender and sexuality in the community and your small business.
Recent research by Xero surveyed over 4,600 small business owners across seven countries, including Australia. The findings showed small business owners across the world experience lower levels of wellbeing than the general population.
Some of the main factors impacting wellbeing were business-related stress, lack of time to rest and recover, the fulfilment of work and whether counselling or support networks were accessed or not. Interestingly, small business owners across the world experience similar levels of wellbeing, despite living in very different local economies and situations. This could reflect the shared experiences of small businesses across the world, or indicate that global factors have a larger impact on stress and wellbeing than local and national factors. The research also found younger small business owners were more likely to experience financial distress, and feel more stressed about their employees' wellbeing than older owners.
To help support wellbeing, the report recommends that small business owners should:
Learn more about the research findings in Xero’s The global state of small business owner wellbeing report.
This Friday is Wear It Purple Day, a day which celebrates the diversity of gender and sexuality in the community and your small business.
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