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Evaluating Individual Performance From Within A Team

The Horizons Tracker

The hypothesis being tested was that managers instinctively pay attention to presenteeism and use that to distinguish individual performance within each team. To explore the matter more, the researchers worked with a US manufacturing company that keeps detailed productivity data.

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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

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week | Main | The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week » December 24, 2010 Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems Flu and Wellness Podcast Happy Friday and Merry Christmas!

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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. Systemized. Administered. Commissioned. Conceptualized. Classified. Formulated. Identified. Incorporated. Centralized. Coordinated. Customized. Designated. Established.

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Protecting Employees from Burning Out: Wellness in the Workplace

HR Digest

According to WellSteps , the cost of “presenteeism,” or poor productivity despite being at work, costs 2-3 times more than what one might spend on direct health care expenses. With no time to rest and recover, a small illness often turns into a prolonged health condition, affecting their health and their ability to work.

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

HR Digest

And those that have already worked on these earlier shifts, by adapting their leaders, cultures and systems to work inclusively across differences, will find it easiest to make the change. Balance requires leadership, cultures and systems to be redesigned and adapted to shifting markets, consumers and talent. It takes time.

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How Counseling About Work Reduces Depression

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes this occurs when people call out sick; at other times, it’s due to what’s called presenteeism , defined as “the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of illness or other medical conditions, not fully functioning.” But that doesn’t mean companies can’t learn from this program.