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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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The sun never sets on the English Empire, nor does it set on yours.

CO2

Presenteeism. companies, the Chicago Daily Herald found that “‘presenteeism’–showing up for work but performing at subpar levels because of physical or emotional health reasons–accounted for about 63 percent of wasted worker productivity, and absenteeism explains the rest.”

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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. It's an age where presenteeism is what matters, an age where an employees productivity is judged not by what actual work they produce but how much face time they have in front of you.

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Possibility Maximizer: Maxim Health Systems' Flu and Wellness Podcast

Sales Wolf Blog

 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.   All that said, the health and wellness of your workforce can have a major impact on your organization's performance.

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New Research: Flexibility Versus Face Time

Harvard Business Review

In an age when technology enables us to work in a coffee shop just as easily as a cubicle, these dramatic reversals in access to flexible work arrangements in favor of face time—especially at e-commerce companies—drew contentious debate.

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Look Who's Distracted Now

Harvard Business Review

In addition to the constant attention-grabbing matters of love, children, sickness, and death, we now, of course, have the rise of technology-related distractions, which some decry as the great enemy of concentration. The oxymoronic concept of being physically present but mentally absent on the job has been dubbed "presenteeism."

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

Ask Atma

It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. reducing absenteeism (and presenteeism). CRM has three principal objectives: Acquire new customers. time management. decision making. motivation.