According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress costs U.S. businesses “more than $300 billion annually due to increased absenteeism, employee turnover, diminished productivity, medical, legal and insurance expenses and Workers’ Compensation payments.”
That’s ten times the cost of all strikes combined, the organization says.
Even if, as an employer, you didn’t care about a ‘warm [...]
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This month, Jon Vegosen discusses some interesting developments relating to technology and employers, as well as the Illinois Family Military Leave Act.
FTC Issues Online Privacy Report
Data privacy breaches ranging from WikiLeaks to the various privacy lawsuits against Facebook, Google and others have made news in recent months. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is urging employers [...]
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A few years ago a major manufacturing company realized that it was ‘breaking up’ with employees regularly. They weren’t firing the employees per se, and they didn’t have a traditional employee retention problem either. They were a great company hiring great candidates – candidates that looked perfect on paper and had solid-gold references. But the [...]
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