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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. However, one of the key learnings for 2022 is when it comes to business management and your career, it’s not so much about how much time you put into it, but how you use that specified time.

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HR’s role in managing pandemic-related burnout

HR Digest

Therefore, it’s important to speak openly about mental health, stress, and burnout with your team and then try to understand how it’s specifically affecting them. Furthermore, there is the stress and worry of a disease that has lingered on with no effective end in sight. Research shows that lost productivity from presenteeism (i.e.,

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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

There are also stressful personal events in our lives that add to the swinging emotional pendulum, like the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship or the loss of a job. Before getting to my tips on how management can get started with this mission, it’s important to review the various definitions of mental health.

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From Burnout to Balance: Nurturing Mental Health in the Workplace

HR Digest

A healthy workforce is less likely to experience absenteeism, presenteeism (when employees come to work but are not fully productive due to illness or stress), and work-related injuries or illnesses. A positive work culture can increase employee engagement, reduce stress levels, and create a more harmonious and productive workplace.

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Protecting Employees from Burning Out: Wellness in the Workplace

HR Digest

The kind of stress the organization causes an individual can leave a lasting impact on them and it becomes a part of the company’s responsibilities to ensure they employ effective workplace wellness ideas to ensure that employees leave the office the same way they came in—if not better than ever before. What is workplace wellness?

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Are remote workers out of sight, out of mind?

Chartered Management Institute

I mean we all know that there have been studies showing that when given this ability staff are more engaged, they get more work done, they're less stressed, you save money on office space, heck, they even put in more hours than their office based brethren. My rational mind thinks that both employees and managers would be all over this.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business Review

Physical, behavioral and mental health issues such as obesity, hypertension, smoking, depression, anxiety, poor sleep, and alcohol dependence can create costs for employers through higher medical claims, reduced employee productivity and performance, absenteeism, presenteeism, and short-term disability.

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