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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.

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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

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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. In several organisations, managers focus on rewarding “face-time” rather than actual performance.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Human resource recruitment and management in the private sector is another variable. Once in a managerial position, individuals often cannot be criticised or even advised, which is a problem particularly in institutions where young employees are increasingly more qualified than their managers.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

The RAND study summarizes it this way: “Consistent with prior research, we find that lifestyle management interventions as part of workplace wellness programs can reduce risk factors, such as smoking, and increase healthy behaviors, such as exercise. Health Human resources' trillion in lost productivity annually in the U.S.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

Seeing how this role is going to be a big part of work-life, employers need to reconsider their human resource policies to work in this burgeoning need. Here are some ways that the HR staff and managers can oversee programs and policies that can benefit the workers who are caregivers.

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

Harvard Business Review

I returned to work the following day, and my office manager dressed me down in front of the entire office because I had been seen out while off sick. I worked with my manager as well as our HR team to ensure they were in the loop and could provide me with support through the process. I work for a very different company now.

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