HR Digest

MARCH 24, 2023

Data collected by the American Diabetes Association indicates that poorly-controlled diabetes increases workplace absenteeism and reduces productivity, costing employers millions. It’s a growing concern for benefits advisors and self-insured employers.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Increased workplace monotony contributes to low productivity, stress, and employee absenteeism. The chance to interact with a company critter is a wonderful incentive to get through the rest of the day. Even a little 10 gallon fish tank with some colorful fish is a great source of entertainment for bored employees.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

According to Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace report, “engagement makes a difference to the bottom line,” which can have an impact on productivity, profitability, customer service, turnover, and absenteeism. The study showed a 27 percent performance increase when an incentive was offered for persistence toward a company goal.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. Occasionally, a brother would get voted out of the chapter after a period of excessive absenteeism.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

The third treatment group received monthly performance information, targets, and an incentive for achieving their targets (£10 donated to the charity of choice per target achieved)—this was the prosocial incentives group. This was the targets group.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. This is because many traditional incentive programs are grounded on the assumption that people will behave in certain rational ways if paid to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Meanwhile, lower engagement has been linked to a range of problematic outcomes, such as increased turnover, absenteeism, and stress. And when meaning isn’t enough, there are always traditional incentives — including financial rewards, recognition, promotion, and flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

There’s another that says all of us, including senior managers, are basically flotsam buffeted about by the eddies of economic incentive, corporate culture, and technologies that keep the office just a tap away. But there are other explanations out there. Of course, those are bad on their own. Is could be skepticism.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Chronic illnesses affect businesses through absenteeism and retention problems, and businesses are uniquely positioned to promote healthy lifestyles for workers and their families. Some companies are adopting wearable technology as part of their wellness programs to incent employees to get fit. Businesses.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Flexibility defines things like working hours, collaborations, workload, deadlines, and rules about absenteeism and reporting to work. Money is a great incentive that you can use to lure employees into dedicating their time and effort to meeting the company’s goals. One of the main reasons why people go to work is to earn money.

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How To Absenteeism Guidelines Cost 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Compensation and benefits that allow them to excel at work and reap maximum benefits, such as health care and childcare, and access to financial incentive programs like pensions. Strong legal protections at work that prevent harassment and discrimination. A Levi Strauss & Company supplier in Egypt saw a 4:1 ROI from the program, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Sena, a supervisor in a company that sells credit to the upcoming Brazilian middle class, thinks corporations underplay this element and rely too much on the motivational power of financial incentives. It is no wonder that corporations in Brazil suffer from high absenteeism and turnover.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Lots of other actors in purchasing, distribution, and brokerage have greater incentives to keep prices high than to lower prices or choose drugs that reduce longer-term medical and business costs, like absenteeism. Competing Incentives. But pharmaceutical companies don’t deserve all of the blame for high drug prices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Incentives have a place, but they can’t single handedly drive long-term lifestyle change. Savings like these are not unrealistic for a 2,000-employee company. Employee buy-in is key. But employers must first realize that they cannot make employees live healthier lifestyles.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

While we can argue about the best ways to maximize productivity, it’s hard to dispute that the physical, mental, and (yes) emotional conditions of employees are very much the business of the company, given that they greatly impact performance, morale, and absenteeism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

He did have a problem with absenteeism. It suggests that firms sometimes have an incentive to pay workers more than the going rate because doing so attracts better candidates, motivates them to work harder, and encourages them to stay at the company longer. The theory of efficiency wages has made a comeback in recent years.

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