Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

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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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

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

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

I returned to work the following day, and my office manager dressed me down in front of the entire office because I had been seen out while off sick. I worked with my manager as well as our HR team to ensure they were in the loop and could provide me with support through the process. I work for a very different company now.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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.

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