British Telecom's Achieving the Balance portfolio recognises that an ageing workforce has unique needs and offers a combination of flexible working, job share, home working and "ease down", which reduces employees' responsibilities as they prepare for retirement or in response to life circumstances, such as balancing the care of an elderly parent with work.
"They're an extreme response to life.
Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress.
In short, a portrait is an artist's most profound and expressive response to life".
Epel, E. S. et al. Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress.
Epel, E.S. et al. Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress.
In some instances, depression may be a normal response to life circumstances, like losing a spouse, partner or parent.
Finnis never lost her excitement in response to life, a quality that propelled her towards the man she would marry.
But, where that felt like academic pastiche, Friel's play is a response to life as much as to art.
This is actually not as unnatural a response to life in an overcrowded world as it seems.
Put another way, rising connoisseurship is a response to life in an age of information shaped by consumerism.
