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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. The post The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World appeared first on SUCCESS.

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Half of work related illness is down to stress, depression or anxiety

Workplace Insight

In the recent years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of self-reported work-related ill health had been broadly flat, but the current rate is higher than 2018/19. In 2021/22, the estimated annual costs of workplace injury and new cases of work-related ill health reached £20.7 The statistics reveal that 1.8

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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

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It also found that more men than women reported taking legal action when they experienced harassment (but were less likely to do so when the perpetrator was someone more senior). A lack of appropriate response can also cost the company financially (costs including settlement, damages, loss of productivity, etc.).

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Getting back to basics in The Great Workplace Conversation

Workplace Insight

One legal expert has already suggested that we might want to consider establishing the notion of cognitive liberty in law to anticipate such tech. As this piece in The New York Times makes clear, Myers Briggs may not be rehabilitated, but firms are looking at new ways of categorising people so they know how to manage them, or not.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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Hard to believe, but in 2018, only roughly 3 percent of US employees worked from home, reports management researcher David Burkus. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (TED Talk: Racism has a cost for everyone ) . Give it to the emerging grown-up in your own life. .

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