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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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HR’s role in managing pandemic-related burnout

HR Digest

The accompanying restrictions on movement have made the activities for relief and downtime such as meeting up with friends, going to the gym, travel and light human interactions difficult. Research shows that lost productivity from presenteeism (i.e., There has been a 16 plus month of pandemic chaos. It’s a lose/lose situation.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism." Many colleagues are sleep-deprived due to travel or having young children and this gives them a chance to refresh their brains and gain the energy boost from a short nap.

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

Harvard Business Review

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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

Ask Atma

Travel management (sometimes assigned to accounting rather than HRM). reducing absenteeism (and presenteeism). Induction, orientation and organizational socialization. Skills management. Training and development. Personnel administration. Compensation in wage or salary. Time management. Employee benefits administration. motivation.