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 Father’s Day weekend, many moms are getting a nice surprise too: 53% of fathers would consider being a “stay at home dad” if it were financially feasible, according to a new survey by the Boston College Center for Work & Family.
While we often think of moms as bearing the full responsibility for finding child [...]
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We often think of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as undercover Narcs or SWAT-team-like law enforcement that shows up when bad guys are up to no good. But their job is to keep us safe from harmful substances and this week they’re doing something really great – raiding your medicine cabinet.
This Saturday, April 30th, from [...]
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I’ve just returned from a three week vacation in which I made a concerted effort to disconnect from my office. Amazingly, I was pretty successful at it.
Here I am, the owner of a company that has, for the last 30 years, been in the business of providing employee assistance (EAP), worklife and wellness programs that enable employees and [...]
Sooner or later, every manager gets a terrible feeling in their gut: We have an employee that could ‘snap.’
It’s a legitimate concern for every organization.
Homicide is the second leading cause of workplace deaths and there are nearly 2 million assaults and threats of violence in U.S. workplaces every year.
To add insult to injury, workplace violence [...]
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Lately, I’ve been struck by the number of organizational consulting requests coming in as the result of disrespectful and potentially harmful employee behaviors – or, as the esteemed Miss Manners may more charmingly put it, workplace incivility.
We’re hearing a lot more organizations ask questions like:
Can you help us with a manager who yells and is [...]
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So, what is “mindfulness” and how can it help indivually, much less in business?
According to Dr. Pirtle, (creator of the Skillfully Aware programm I referenced in my last post,) mindfulness is the act of watching the process of our actions. Our actions will always produce patterns and patterns from our past have inertia and constantly [...]
Have you ever seen that 90’s movie “While You Were Sleeping” with Sandra Bullock?
One of the scenes that stands out in my mind is the Christmas dinner Sandra’s character attends when her unconscious “fiancée” is still in the hospital.
Sadly desperate and unquestionably lonely, Sandra’s character walks into a festive family dinner and is immediately enveloped [...]
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This week, it was all over the news: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is suing a Connecticut company that terminated an employee for posting negative remarks about her supervisor on her Facebook… but the root cause of this is really an employee relations issue.
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Because the demands and expectations of the holidays can be challenging, this is a great time to remind employees that that their employee assistance program (EAP) is available to listen and offer help.
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