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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. For example, video content has become a significant part of marketing, particularly on social media. It’s a complete culture change.

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135 Powerful Resume Action Verbs for Creative Positions

HR Digest

Here’s an action verbs list for creative positions: CREATIVE PLANNING: Example: Developed a company culture initiative which raised employee presenteeism by 25% YoY. Example: Worked closely with marketing team to revise the creative direction on five projects. Administered. Commissioned. Conceptualized. Classified. Formulated.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

We started in 2005 working with a lot of multinationals that were globalizing, seeing much of their future growth coming from new markets and needing their leadership teams to reflect a deeper understanding and representation of these places and cultures. Bundling these two mega-trends made a lot of sense.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

One of the most overlooked aspects of this challenge is the makeup of the Kingdom’s talent pool, and other domestic labor market realities. Presenteeism in offices often is used as a critical measure of effort, and hence value to an organization, in place of output, qualification, or skill. It’s a tall order.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

People become self-absorbed and lose sight of the wider context — customers, constituencies, markets, or the world. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Withdrawing from contact further isolates them, encouraging others to back away too. Silos harden.

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

Harvard Business Review

The selection of what to work on and the accompanying measures must be market relevant, standardized, and measured rapidly. Its 20 founding members should encourage others in their local markets to participate in their initiatives. Additionally, they must be meaningful to the employer, beneficiaries, and the care providers.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they question the motives of a company for even offering a wellness program, which they slam as an “employee control tool” and “a marketing tool for health plans.” They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs.