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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. Outsource your resources. Corporate video production companies like MHF Creative are an excellent resource for making your business stand out and pushing your business to the next level.

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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

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  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. License. .

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

Understanding differences in order to anticipate and serve customer needs and develop the best talent from across the globe. Knowing how to do this well, building trust, engagement and psychological safety; measuring output not input or presenteeism, and building strong succession pipelines, requires management skill.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

A few stars become a privileged elite, claiming disproportionate attention, resources, and opportunities. People hoard resources for their own use. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Internal rivalries escalate into gang warfare. Initiative decreases.

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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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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

In short, companies want to reduce the risk that their workers will get the flu, develop lung cancer, or suffer from the many debilitating conditions linked to overweight and a sedentary lifestyle. They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs.