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Entries Tagged as 'Health'

When You’re Taking a Sick Day

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

TweetShare First, take the sick day. Stay home. You don’t get any bonus points for being a martyr and trying to work through a cold. And you’re just going to get everyone else in the office sick, thereby destroying the productivity of your whole team. You know how much you hate it when the guy [...]

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Tags: Health · Productivity

Health Insurance Options After a Job Loss

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

TweetShareThe best time to prepare for a job loss or a layoff is before it happens. Anticipation. Preparation. I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately, so I’ll have a bunch of posts on this this week. There were a lot of good things on the internet this weekend about just this topic. Starting [...]

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Tags: Benefits · Finance · Health · Layoff Rumors

Sick At Work Official Term: Presenteeism

February 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

TweetShareI went down a link path today and learned a lot about a new term: Presenteeism. Follow along with me and learn about a new way of thinking about having a sick workforce. Firstly, the NYTimes blog had a post talking about something we’ve all probably thought to ourselves many times over the years: If [...]

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Tags: Health · Productivity · WorkLife