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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

It’s the greatest challenge of our modern age: maintaining a healthy work-life balance and maximizing your productivity to help your business and career thrive. The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. It’s a complete culture change.

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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.

Strategy 231
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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

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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The sun never sets on the English Empire, nor does it set on yours.

CO2

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. Presenteeism. ” Service, clerical and other office occupations showed a particularly high degree of presenteeism.

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135 Powerful Resume Action Verbs for Creative Positions

HR Digest

Pioneered ‘College & Career Night.’. Here’s an action verbs list for creative positions: CREATIVE PLANNING: Example: Developed a company culture initiative which raised employee presenteeism by 25% YoY. Remember, accomplishment statements should showcase your achievements and results instead of duties and responsibilities.

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Building a positive work-life culture

Strategy Driven

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. There is also low utilization of such policies despite the widespread demand for such flexibility.

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New Research: Flexibility Versus Face Time

Harvard Business Review

Arguments addressed all angles of the debate: the rationale for these decisions, the merit of "presenteeism," the impact of telecommuting on productivity, the implications of eliminating flexibility for working parents, and consequences for the future of work. We found that access to flex options impacts career aspirations.