“...employers,
on average, have $3 of health-related productivity costs for
every $1 of medical or pharmacy claims costs.”
Loeppke R,
Hymel P. Good health is good business. Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine
“When you are doing well and operating at peak level, the deep
centers [of the brain] send up messages of excitement,
satisfaction, and joy. They pump up your motivation, help you
maintain attention, and don’t interfere with working memory, the
number of data points you can keep track of at once. But when
you are confronted with the sixth decision after the fifth
interruption in the midst of a search for the ninth missing
piece of information on the day that the third deal has
collapsed and the 12th impossible request has blipped unbidden
across your computer screen, your brain begins to panic,
reacting just as if that sixth decision were a bloodthirsty,
man-eating tiger.”
Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People
Underperform, Edward M. Hallowell, Harvard Business Review
January 2005
“Highly stressed employees are absent more often and are much
more likely to leave their jobs. When at work, they tend to be
significantly less productive — a phenomenon known as
presenteeism, which can be even more expensive than frequent
absences...
“More than half the respondents to the survey said they had left
a job or considered doing so because of stress, and 55 percent
said that stress made them less productive at work.”
The Tension
Builds (It’s Almost Monday), Kelley Holland, New York Times,
March 23, 2008
