Approximately 131 million working days were lost to sickness absence in 2011, a new report from the Office for National Statistics shows. This was a fall of 26% since 1993 (when 178 million days were lost) despite an increase in total employment from around 25 million people to about 29 million people. The amount of [...]
When your team asks you want you want, here’s what you tell them. My recent column, 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses, drew a flood of responses. But there’s one thing I didn’t mention: An extraordinary boss communicates his expectations clearly to his team. That way, everyone understands what it will take to make your company [...]
You may think you’re getting more accomplished by working longer hours. You’re probably wrong. There’s been a flurry of recent coverage praising Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, for leaving the office every day at 5:30 p.m. to be with her kids. Apparently she’s been doing this for years, but only recently “came out of [...]
Benjamin Franklin was a man of action. Over his lifetime, his curiosity and passion fueled a diverse range of interests. He was a writer (often using a pseudonym), publisher, diplomat, inventor and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His inventions included the lightning rod, bifocals and the Franklin stove. Franklin was responsible [...]
More than one million UK workers are ‘sleep drunk’ due to a lack of shut eye, new data of nearly 39,000 employed people from Vielife has shown. Although drink driving is socially unacceptable sleep deprivation is so extreme in the UK that one million people are doing the equivalent of getting behind the wheel intoxicated [...]
Each day over 140,000 people go into work with a hangover with a cumulative impact of £6.4 billion cost to the UK economy, triggering the launch of employee breath screening technology in workplaces. Alcohol misuse is estimated to cost UK business £48,000 every minute. But unlike other schemes that often penalise and cause mistrust amongst [...]
Monday 16 January 2012 has been designated the most depressing day of the year – Blue Monday – but ‘workplace malaise’ could be costing businesses as much as £93 billion in lost productivity according to The University of Exeter and office environment consultancy Ambius. ‘Blue Monday’ approaches Monday 16 January 2012 has been designated the [...]
