Affecting Employee Productivity

Looking for a new angle in your approach to health and wellness promotion? Think stress management.

Stress is an important focus because of its effects on your workers’ mental and physical health as well as on their ability to function efficiently and effectively at work.

Though it’s an unavoidable aspect of life (and actually has certain benefits, … Continue Reading »

There are only so many ways you can make the point that smoking is bad for you.

And yet this disease-causing, foul-smelling, age-accelerating habit is still a major health concern not only for smokers themselves, but also for the people who employ them.

Whereas smokers face the consequences of their addiction in primarily physical ways, their … Continue Reading »

Burning the midnight oil may be good for productivity, but new research shows that it’s bad for heart health.

Working long hours (in the study, classified as 11 or more hours per day) on a regular basis has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease.

Compared to people who work a more reasonable seven or … Continue Reading »

Keeping your office free of germs starts with not letting them in in the first place.

That means ensuring that sick workers (and their cold and flu bugs) stay at home where they belong, which may require you to tighten up on your sick leave policy.

Too many people think that “soldiering through” is preferable to spending … Continue Reading »

Phones ring, people talk, machines hum … even your own thoughts can be distracting in a busy workplace.

These sounds can also be music to an employer’s ear, audible proof that the employees are doing their thing and that all is right in the business world.

It’s a hectic environment where (you hope) staff members tune out … Continue Reading »

There’s something nasty lurking in your office.

Its goal? To unravel even your best efforts to achieve workplace wellness.

It can strike any of your workers at any time, thwarting productivity, job satisfaction, and performance.

Unchecked, it can even pave the way to serious physical and psychological problems.

We’re talking about stress, and it’s more than just an … Continue Reading »

As inevitable as death and taxes, stress is something we all have in common.

Despite its reputation, stress is not always a bad thing: It can serve as a motivator, keeping us from simply stewing over a problem and instead doing something to solve it.

On the other hand is the kind of stress that causes real … Continue Reading »