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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

 I can think of few, if any, employee wellness issues that have such a direct and measurable impact on an organization's performance as the absenteeism (and presenteeism) resulting from influenza. .  All that said, the health and wellness of your workforce can have a major impact on your organization's performance.

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Look Who's Distracted Now

Harvard Business Review

Professor Cathy Davidson of Duke, in a 2011 HBR interview, defined the maximum length of uninterrupted human concentration as 20 minutes, before we need some break, whether to space out check our email. The oxymoronic concept of being physically present but mentally absent on the job has been dubbed "presenteeism."