Check email, answer the phone, finish a proposal and watch the latest viral YouTube video—all in an hour’s work, right? Tod Maffin, president of engageQ digital, says the need to multi-task constantly is having a negative impact on productivity.
In spite of repeated complaints to Walmart’s district people manager, the company took no steps to intervene or curtail the manager’s behaviour. In fact, after meeting with a committee of three senior Walmart managers, Boucher was advised that her complaints did not warrant further consideration. The court believed differently.
Do your employees feel physically and psychologically safe at work? According to a new Ipsos Reid survey released today, 71% of Canadian employees surveyed report some degree of concern with psychological health and safety in their workplace. And, among that group, 14% said their workplace is not psychologically healthy and safe. The survey, commissioned by […]
Depression has gained a serious presence in today’s workplace, finds a new survey from Ipsos Reid, funded by the Great-West Life Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace.
It’s Catch-22: Depression and other mental health issues can seriously impact the workplace, and the workplace can have a serious impact on an employee’s mental health.
More demands, fewer resources—this is the way of today’s working world. As an employer, how you deal with this reality could be the difference between a prospering company and one that is burdened with high turnover rates and absenteeism issues.
Violence happens in the workplace. The incident at the Empire State building on Friday morning in which a fired employee opened fire on a former colleague is a grim reminder that employers need to have a plan in place should something happen, but also strategies for preventing issues escalating to such extreme levels.
Most organizations will see mental disorders as one of the top two categories on their drug utilization reports, and those conditions tend to be trending upwards, said Leanne MacFarlane, senior director, business development, with MHCSI, as part of a mental health panel at the conference.
Bill Wilkerson’s career has been a series of accidents, he says, starting with the day he was expelled from high school for starting a water balloon fight during his senior year, in 1962.
“I’m going to irritate a lot of people today,” began Dee Edington, keynote speaker on health management as a serious business strategy, at the Benefits Canada 2012 Benefits & Pension Summit. Drawing on his experience as director of the University of Michigan Health Management Research Center, Edington had a lot to say about what doesn’t […]