I wrote here in an earlier post about safety officers and hw they are sometimes (erroneously) considered expendable when it comes time to streamline staff during a rough economic patch. Sometimes, profits came before safety and safety can be an afterthought with somecompanies. Well, here we have another example of this condescension of sorts, when [...]
Most of the world has been through a rough recession in the past few years. Some countries are still recovering, while others seem to be on more solid footing five years after the worldwide financial crash of 2008. And many of us remember when things got really bad in the first part of 2009 and [...]
Some of the bravest men and women we could possibly know live among us - they are called "first responders." Specifically, we are referring to firefighters - those men and women who willingly put their lives on the line to save others -many of whom they have never met and may not ever meet if [...]
Whether you know it or not, or even realize it or not, workplace bullying and workplace violence can be, and is, a real problem in may office environments. In my last post, I addressed the realities of this topic and a couple of amazing statistics about this by-product of a toxic workplace. First, 75 percnt [...]
We all have been here at one time or another. Maybe it happened in primary or elementary school. Maybe junior high. Maybe high school - maybe even college. We get pushed off the swings. We get our shoulder bumped while walking down the hall. We get into a staring contest with someone we just don't [...]
In my last post, I discussed the growing problem of absenteeism in the workplace and the added importance of having a healthy workforce is this day of a slimmed workforce, less margin for error and a productivity balance that is very fragile. I quoted an estimate from Gallup that said annual costs of absenteeism in [...]
In this struggling economy - and let's face it, many of us don't need talking heads in Washington to tell us what is going on; we are on the ground and we see it all around us - it seems that companies have had to reduce their staffs, and they are running on thinner margins [...]
