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

Ask Atma

Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Wikipedia had 195 pages listed under the related subject of ‘organizational studies and human resource management’. Human Resource Management. reducing absenteeism (and presenteeism). Workforce planning. time management.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Consider this paper by Harvard researchers who reviewed 36 studies of corporate wellness programs. They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs. Health Human resources' trillion in lost productivity annually in the U.S.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Human resource recruitment and management in the private sector is another variable. Presenteeism in offices often is used as a critical measure of effort, and hence value to an organization, in place of output, qualification, or skill.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

Seeing how this role is going to be a big part of work-life, employers need to reconsider their human resource policies to work in this burgeoning need. That is why a caregiver benefit is essential in an organization as all employees can find value in it.

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What I’ve Learned from Talking About My Bipolar Disorder at Work

Harvard Business Review

Sadly, very few people are as fortunate as I am. That’s more than an eightfold return on investment.