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Gauging an Employee’s Emotional Well-Being in a Virtual World: Warning Signs and Ways to Help

Great Leadership By Dan

Lack of Participation: It is hard to keep attendees of a virtual meeting interested. Lack of participation may indicate despondence more than disinterest, especially if the lack of involvement is unusual for this team member. An emotionally distracted or depressed person will find it difficult to concentrate and participate.

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How Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. Be sure the managers participating in your employee recognition program can offer a sincere celebration with no “yeah, buts.” If showing up is the best behavior you can find to recognize, keep looking.

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Transitioning From Employee Well-being To Healthy Organization

HR Digest

It’s your duty as an employer or human resource manager to consider what factors could bring this goal to light. This, in turn, can lead to reduced absenteeism and improved productivity. Promoting healthy lifestyle habits might also include offering resources for stress management and offering mental health business imperatives.

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

Participants were left alone in a lab room for 15 minutes with no devices, pens, or reading material. Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Busyness reduces engagement and increases absenteeism.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business Review

Good ventilation has been shown to reduce sick building syndrome symptoms, cut absenteeism , and even reduce infectious disease transmission. We found that breathing better air led to significantly better decision-making performance among our participants. This makes buildings, in essence, a human resource tool.

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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business Review

Working directly with our human resources department, we launched a remote work pilot for our team of 35 employees. In its 2014 survey on workplace flexibility, the Society for Human Resource Management found that one-third of companies participating in the survey saw a decrease in absenteeism after they implemented flex-time policies.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Department of Health and Human Services. It’s not clear whether the authors are intentionally dismissing or simply misunderstanding the wealth of data that shows how wellness programs benefit participating employees. Health Human resources' trillion in lost productivity annually in the U.S.