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Feel Guilty for Taking a Sick Day? You’re Not Alone, but It Shouldn’t Be the Norm

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According to a 2022 study that appeared in the Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences across four public schools in Nicaragua, teachers often work while ill because economically, they have to. In a 2022 Switzerland study , nearly 30% of primary care providers surveyed had skipped using sick time, despite how poorly they were feeling.

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How Financial Wellness Programs Can Benefit Employees and Employers

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Gone are the days when new employees received a list of the company holidays during onboarding and a packet with information about how to sign up for health care and retirement benefits. Companies can gauge employees’ interest in financial wellness programs by conducting anonymous surveys, she adds.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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In decades gone by, the only perk you might have received from your boss was a fruit basket around the holidays. The answer tends to lie in a totally anonymous survey, both at the start of programming and periodically throughout. Consider sending out surveys Then, they send out surveys periodically for employee feedback.

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Employees avoid telling employers about less visible disabilities

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To avoid telling bosses about a condition, people with less visible disabilities report working even when not feeling well enough (55 percent) or taking holiday to attend medical appointments (26 percent). Latest estimates from the Family Resources Survey indicate that 14.6 There are an estimated 10.2m There are an estimated 10.2m

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. During any transaction, survey your customer regularly. Successful businesses S.I.T.

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One in four people will work from abroad this year, and many won’t tell their employer

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The survey of more than 2,000 UK office workers claims that the dramatic increase in hybrid working post pandemic now extends to a “work from anywhere” culture. The survey claims that around half (49 percent) of these workers take out only personal insurance when working abroad, which may not be suitable cover.

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Employee Engagement is a Core Strength for Top Workplaces

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In the employee survey administered by WorkplaceDynamics , the feedback from company employees was off the charts by nearly every organizational health measure, including Alignment, Execution, and The Manager. It requires travel, long hours, missed holidays. Doing things well. It is demanding.

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