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PERFORMANCE STRESS: Work can be stressful, and the sources of workplace stress are practically endless. So why not eliminate one of them right from the start? It’s time to say goodbye to the annual performance review, according to some experts.

TROUBLED RELATIONSHIPS: As if the recession alone weren’t bad enough: the financial crisis has led to more bullying in the workplace. According to research in Britain, numbers have doubled in the past ten years.

Psychology: No matter how much you enjoy your work, there are days when you’d rather not be doing it. Your colleagues have days like that, too, and that’s why it’s sometimes helpful to complain about your jobs. But be careful: too much complaining could cost you your job.

I recently took my daughter to visit the office in Munich. The baby felt quite at home, though she resisted being picked up by anyone — except the boss and the boss’s boss.

“The people we share an office with are like our family members: they know things about us we wish they didn’t”

Most people agree that good health and fitness can help them deal with the demands of modern business life. Yet these demands also make it increasingly difficult to shape up and to stay fit.

If you have a baby and work from home, like I do, your productivity is more dependent on your child’s biorhythm than on your own.

Dr Eckart von Hirschhausen, 40, has worked as a medical doctor and business journalist. For the past 15 years, he has been a comedian, television presenter and humour consultant and is the founder of Rote Nasen Deutschland.

Male bosses continue to stand in the way of women who are trying to get ahead in business. And even if your boss isn't "out to get" you, don't you sometimes feel he doesn't understand you?

"We all know someone who makes her office her very own personal space. (I say "her" here, because it's often a woman.) She can't work unless she is surrounded by items from home."