Planet Business

In numbers: Workplace wellbeing

47

Percentage of Irish employers “providing facilities to promote physical activity or healthy diets” among their workforce, says a survey of employees commissioned by the

Nutrition and Health Foundation

.

50

Less than half of the employees with access to available facilities use them, according to the survey, commissioned to mark Ireland’s first National Workplace Wellbeing Day. (That’s today.)

6

Average number of hours that people in professional, managerial and administrative roles spend sitting down each day, the foundation says. But which would alleviate the misery more effectively? An employer- organised yoga class, or knocking off early?

Image of the week: By royal appointment

When the

Apple

brand finally loses its cool, people will look back on this photograph of the one they call the Duke of York holding up an iPad like it’s a radioactive curiosity and say this was the moment it all went wrong.

In proof that anyone, no matter what their background, can call themselves a champion of technology, Prince Andrew has taken to fronting a start-up support scheme called pitch@palace, in which would-be entrepreneurs are introduced to people who might give them money.

This week, at St James's Palace in London, he invited 400 people in the audience to sing happy birthday via the Facetime app to his New York-based daughter Eugenie, who wore novelty glasses as a cunning disguise. PHOTOGRAPH: DOMINIC LIPINSKI / PA WIRE The Lexicon: Beefhack A "life hack" is "any trick, shortcut, skill or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all works of life", according to Wikipedia, a little- known "hack hack" site. The -hack suffix has now spread to agribusiness.

Sponsored by ABP Food Group, the "Beefhack" was billed as Ireland's "first food hackathon", under which "makers, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, creators, innovators, developers and farmers" gathered at DCU's Innovation Campus last weekend to solve food industry problems.

The “Beefhack” was a “collaborative brainstorming, designing and prototyping event”, aimed at encouraging “the rapid creation of innovation solutions” to those problems.

Next week: Lambhack. No, that sounds bad.