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Is it Your Responsibility to Make Work/Life Balance Work for Your Employees?

If you’re asking author, advertising CEO and performance coach Nigel Marsh, the answer would be an enthusiastic (and Aussie-accented) “No.” In Marsh’s TED talk (you can watch the video at bottom of this post), in which he shares his thoughts on work/life balance and asks the oft-raised question, “What does a life well-lived look like?”, he argues that it’s not up to corporations or outside interests to determine employees’ work/life balance — it’s up to the employees themselves. Continue reading

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Three In Four Employees Show Up to Work Sick

Is “Presenteeism” Infecting Your Workplace?

Missing out on the opportunity to catch up on the always-entertaining-for-one-reason-or-another The View, 72 percent of workers go to work when they are sick, according to a new survey released today by CareerBuilder.  Evidently, “presenteeism” and workplace pressures outweigh the desire to see the ridiculous charming banter between Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg, as more than half of those workers (55 percent) say they feel guilty if they call in sick. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Survey Results

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Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted To… Work? How to Help Yourself — and Your Employees — Deal

Are you one of those people addicted, not to love as Robert Palmer once claimed you were, but to work? Or worse yet, are your own employees stuck to their ergonomic yet stifling cubicle chairs, desperately looking for you to help them regain a sense of balance? Continue reading

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5 Easy Ways to Lower Healthcare Costs: More Lessons from SHRM 2010

Look at any “best places to work” list, and you’ll notice that most of the companies listed tend to share the same four employee benefit offerings, SHRM’s Steven Williams pointed out during his presentation on employee benefit programs for the organization’s annual conference in San Diego last month: 1) Health care; 2) Work/life balance; 3) Unique or unusual benefits; and 4) Leave. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Building a Best Place to Work, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Events, Health Care, SHRM 2010, Talent Acquisition

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Many Workers are Becoming More Fit — but Where Do Employers Fit In?

Okay, not every professional eats the healthiest things imaginable (or is free of legal troubles, for that matter) — a la competitive hot dog eater Takeru Kobayashi. However, according to the results of a new CareerBuilder survey of more than 4,400 workers, many folks are reaching less for the potato chips and more for the straight-up potatoes; less for the cigarettes and more for the treadmill. Continue reading

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Corporate Wellness Programs

Sorting through all the fabulous feedback we received after asking readers to share what their companies are doing to promote employee wellness, we noticed a few shared characteristics among the various initiatives readers discussed.

Below are seven standout traits that a vast number of these wellness programs share, with examples of how – in our readers’ own words – companies’ employee wellness programs embody these traits. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Health Care, Retention, Talent Acquisition

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