How Present Are Your People?

Presenteeism is more complicated than absenteeism and is often not well understood by leadership and management.  Leaders and managers may see their team arrive for work, ready for a full day’s work but not recognize whether they are actually in the physical, mental and emotional space to deliver their best efforts.

Are your employees absent while being present in their job?

Presenteesism costs are estimated to cost companies up to four times more than absenteeism through the loss of productivity on the job. Are your employees sitting around staring at the computer screen, unable to prioritize their tasks, unable to remain focused on important deliverables? Are they finding excuses for not performing well?

All levels of productivity can be affected by numerous influences namely their physical, mental and emotional states. An employee who is out of balance due to personal relationship issues, financial stressors, a poor relationship at home  will struggle to stay on  task at a satisfactory level.

Numerous studies have show that “the lack of presence” on the job costs US companies billions of dollars.

An assortment of preventable health problems contribute to such losses in productivity. For instance research has shown that inactivity can reduce productivity by 7%, excessive alcohol consumption by 4%, smoking by 10%, stress by 13%, neck and back pain by 20% and lack of sleep by a whopping 30% per employee

It is in the employers best interest to recognize the impact of presenteeism in their business and provide solutions to gain the best from employees.

Employees who are more focused, present, and healthy are those who lead their life well.  Make sure you provide an employee well-being program to foster higher levels of personal presence vs presenteeism.

Think about it this way…let’s say you pay your  team 500, 000 per year and they show up at 100% only half the time–you just lost 250,000-cash,  and an undetermined level of value related to innovation, problem solving and customer satisfaction.

We want our employees to be PRESENT, HEALTHY and ENGAGED

Well-Being = Presence, Presence =Engagement and Discretionary Effort –which is PRICELESS

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