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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

According to a recent study, employees suffering from depression cost employers more than $44 billion per year in lost productivity, with over 81 percent of that decreased productivity coming in the form of presenteeism, or the practice of going to work despite illness or anxiety and commonly resulting in reduced productivity.

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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

The RAND study summarizes it this way: “Consistent with prior research, we find that lifestyle management interventions as part of workplace wellness programs can reduce risk factors, such as smoking, and increase healthy behaviors, such as exercise. We find that these effects are sustainable over time and clinically meaningful.”.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business Review

Physical, behavioral and mental health issues such as obesity, hypertension, smoking, depression, anxiety, poor sleep, and alcohol dependence can create costs for employers through higher medical claims, reduced employee productivity and performance, absenteeism, presenteeism, and short-term disability.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. They want to minimize risk rather than to look for big improvements. Defensive pessimism" sets in; that is, lowering expectations to cope with anxiety in risky situations. Initiative decreases. competitiveness.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. To achieve better care, employers need to work with providers to determine the conditions that are generating the greatest direct and indirect costs and to develop measurable quality goals.