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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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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  I can think of few, if any, employee wellness issues that have such a direct and measurable impact on an organization's performance as the absenteeism (and presenteeism) resulting from influenza. License. . 

System 167
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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

In short, companies want to reduce the risk that their workers will get the flu, develop lung cancer, or suffer from the many debilitating conditions linked to overweight and a sedentary lifestyle. They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs.

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What I’ve Learned from Talking About My Bipolar Disorder at Work

Harvard Business Review

About half of employers would not wish to employ a person with a psychiatric diagnosis (Manning and White, 1995) and two-thirds of employers in the private sector and in small and medium-sized companies report that they have never knowingly done so (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2007).

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

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. Only by working together will employers and providers achieve the highest quality outcomes at the lowest cost with the most benefit to individuals.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

They develop action plans. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Training and development. Human Resource Management. reducing absenteeism (and presenteeism). Workforce planning.