Understanding your employee needs and keeping them happy and healthy is the best way to combat absenteeism and limit its financial impact on your business. A definite correlation between absenteeism and its effect on revenue has been observed. And, statistics released last year by Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA) and Statistics South Africa show that […]
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What is absent or absenteeism? What does it mean and can I overlook it or should I deal with it? What will happen if I don’t deal with it? What harm can it do if an employee is a few minutes late? Questions, questions and more questions – but the most dominant consideration is usually
In February, after almost two years’ worth of six-hour workdays, nurses at the Svartedalens elderly care facility in Gothenburg, Sweden went back to eight hour shifts – despite recently published research showing the benefits of the shortened workdays. The City of Gothenburg didn’t extend the experiment in part because funding ran out. It cost about
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The corporate world is full of stories of employees shunning sleep and working into the night. In Japan, which is known for its pervasive corporate culture, a recent government survey revealed a fifth of companies had employees who were clocking more than 80 hours’ overtime a month. It also has been well reported that investment
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