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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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism."

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CO2

OCTOBER 8, 2013

The American contingent had a myopic focus on careers. They had the sense that if they let up on the career front just a little bit, someone would take their spot in line. Maybe it’s because Americans hold the notion that anything is possible so long as we work a little harder. Presenteeism.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The pressure to work long hours along with the career penalties associated with the use of work-life policies are creating workplace cultures where employees have limited choices in terms of managing their work and non-work demands. In several organisations, managers focus on rewarding “face-time” rather than actual performance.

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