A survey has found that a quarter of small business owners have fallen ill due to stress and overwork
When Hannah Cook set up Mendip Accounting Solutions in 2005, the idea was to create a career for herself that would fit around her family plans. Since then she’s had three children – and taken no more than two weeks’ maternity leave with each baby’s arrival.
“I’d been going for about three years when my eldest, Charlie, was born, so I had a lot of client commitments,” she explains. “I had two staff at that point but one was off on maternity leave at the same time as me, so I took 10 days off.
“I really struggled with it,” the 34-year-old from Clevedon admits. “Pretty much every day I left the office in tears. But I didn’t have much of a choice because my husband was self-employed as a mortgage adviser and it was around [the time of] the crash so he lost a lot of clients.”
Read article in full: http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/sep/10/business-owners-work-life-balance-wellbeing-risk
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