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HR’s role in managing pandemic-related burnout

HR Digest

However, this sudden transition from an office to a home office has come with its own challenges–keeping pace with technology, self-starting, communication, availability, a diffusion of work and home life. Research shows that lost productivity from presenteeism (i.e., Added to that is the anxiety associated with the Pandemic.

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Are remote workers out of sight, out of mind?

Chartered Management Institute

The technology to enable people to work from wherever they want is well established. My rational mind thinks that both employees and managers would be all over this. Except of course that most managers are still stuck in the dark ages. We're in a nasty recession, with employee engagement generally at rock bottom.

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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. . 

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Look Who's Distracted Now

Harvard Business Review

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

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

Ask Atma

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.