#supportive work environment

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Breaking Free from the Chains of Hustle Culture: Embracing Equality and Compassion

The Dark Side of the Hustle Mentality: Striving for Balance and Well-Being

Breaking Free from the Chains of Hustle Culture: Embracing Equality and Compassion Our society is driven by hustle culture and relentless pursuit of success, America finds itself grappling with a deeply ingrained mistrust of fellow humans. The idea of wealth distribution and the possibility of everyone living well like upper-middle-class individuals is often met with suspicion and jealousy. This…

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The importance of ensuring that employees understand and appreciate the benefits provided by their company has never been more critical. There are some alarming statistics on the lack of understanding of basic health insurance terms.

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Navigating the Crisis of Nurse Engagement: A New Perspective

The landscape of nursing in the United States is facing a critical challenge: a significant number of nurses are not fully engaged in their work. This alarming trend, highlighted in the 2023 National Nursing Engagement Report, raises serious concerns about the future of healthcare and the well-being of those at its frontline. A Deep Dive into the Report The report, conducted by PRC, surveyed…

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Building a Supportive Environment for New Employees: A Pathway to Organizational Success

Creating a welcoming and supportive atmosphere for new hires is not just a matter of good manners; it’s a strategic investment in the future of a business. This article will outline the significance of building a supportive environment for new employees, detailing the steps that lead to a more engaged, productive, and loyal workforce. The Foundation of Support The onboarding process is the…

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How Implementing Workplace Wellness Programs Can Help Reduce Employee Absenteeism?

Employee absenteeism can be a significant problem for organizations, resulting in lost productivity, decreased morale, and increased costs. The World Health Organization estimates that absenteeism costs employers around the world approximately $225 billion annually. 

According to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, unscheduled absenteeism costs employers an average of $1,800 per employee per year. This staggering number emphasizes the importance of finding ways to reduce absenteeism in the workplace. 

One way to address this issue is by implementing workplace wellness programs. These programs aim to improve employees' overall health and well-being. Healthcare costs can also be reduced significantly by implementing workplace wellness programs. 

Consequently, it leads to increased productivity, decreased absenteeism, and decreased healthcare costs. This article will explore how workplace wellness programs can help reduce employee absenteeism.

What Is Employee Absenteeism?

Employee absenteeism refers to the act of an employee not showing up for work when they are scheduled to work. Various factors, including illness, injury, family responsibilities, personal issues, and job dissatisfaction, can cause absenteeism. Absenteeism can be costly.

Unplanned absences from work, on the other hand, impact both employers and employees. Employers are frequently left understaffed when employees begin to take excessive unexplained absences. 

It increases businesses' obligations by requiring them to incur additional labor costs to compensate for the missing work hours of the absent employees. It also raises the workload on the remaining workers, which can lead to workplace unhappiness and other problems.

Aside from seeing a few dollars less in their salary, employees tend to lose their value as hardworking members of the firm. And if these individuals continue to make unexpected absences, they will almost certainly lose their employment.

What Are Workplace Wellness Programs?

Workplace wellness programs are initiatives designed to promote healthy lifestyles among employees. These programs typically include health screenings, fitness challenges, stress management, nutrition education, and smoking cessation programs. 

Activities and initiatives aim to improve employees' physical, mental, and emotional health. By implementing these programs, employers can create a workplace culture of health and wellness, reducing employee absenteeism.

Role Of Workplace Wellness Program 

Improved Physical Health

A major component of many workplace wellness programs is promoting physical health. It can include on-site fitness classes, access to gym facilities, and encouraging employees to take regular breaks throughout the day to move around and stretch. 

By focusing on physical health, employers can help employees maintain a healthy weight, reduce their risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and improve their overall energy levels. 

Employee absenteeism can be a significant problem for companies, reducing productivity and decreasing morale. These programs are designed to promote a healthy lifestyle among employees, which in turn, helps reduce the risk of illnesses and absenteeism. 

Reduced Mental Stress

Stress is a major cause of absenteeism in the workplace. According to the American Institute of Stress, workplace stress costs employers $300 billion annually in absenteeism, turnover, and lost productivity. 

Workplace wellness programs that focus on stress management can reduce the impact of stress on employees. Stress management workshops, meditation sessions, and relaxation techniques are all examples of workplace wellness programs that can help reduce stress. 

Employers can create a more relaxed and supportive work environment that promotes employee well-being and reduces absenteeism by providing employees with the tools and resources to manage stress effectively.

Improved Mental Health

Mental health is another important factor in determining an employee's ability to attend work regularly. Mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and burnout can all lead to increased absenteeism. Workplace wellness programs focus on improving mental health.

They can help reduce absenteeism by providing employees with the resources to manage their mental health effectively. Counseling services, mental health support groups, and mindfulness training are all examples of workplace wellness programs that can improve mental health. 

Frequent employee absences not only affect the productivity and profitability of the organization but also impact the morale and motivation of the employees. By providing employees with access to wellness resources, employers can help them manage mental health issues.

Increased Engagement and Motivation

Engaged and motivated employees are more likely to attend work regularly. Workplace wellness programs focusing on employee engagement and motivation can help reduce absenteeism by creating a more positive work environment that encourages employees to attend work regularly.

Employee recognition programs, team-building activities, and professional development opportunities are all examples of workplace wellness programs that can increase employee engagement and motivation. 

By providing employees with opportunities to grow and develop professionally and recognizing their contributions to the organization, employers can create a more engaged and motivated workforce that is less likely to miss work.

Improved Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance determines an employee's ability to attend work regularly. Employees who feel overworked and stressed are likely to miss work due to illness or burnout. Workplace wellness programs focusing on improving work-life balance.

They can help reduce absenteeism by creating a more supportive work environment that allows employees to balance their personal and professional responsibilities. Flexible work arrangements, time-off policies, and employee assistance programs are all examples.

Employers can create a more balanced work environment that promotes employee well-being and reduces absenteeism by providing employees with the flexibility and resources to manage their personal and professional responsibilities.

Conclusion

As absenteeism continues to be a major concern worldwide, implementing workplace wellness programs can help address this issue. Therefore, employers must take proactive steps to reduce absenteeism by promoting the health and well-being of their employees. 

Implementing workplace wellness programs can be an effective strategy for reducing employee absenteeism. By promoting the health and well-being of employees, these programs can improve physical and health, reduce stress, increase engagement and motivation.

Employers can create a more productive, profitable, and supportive work environment that benefits employees and the organization by creating a workplace health and well-being culture. So, if you have not implemented such programs yet, it’s the best time to start one. 

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Enable, Empower, and Encourage

The words “enable,” “empower,” and “encourage” can also have significant implications for improving organizational performance and promoting continuous improvement in the context of quality management. Enable: In the context of quality management, to enable is to make available the tools, resources, and procedures required to assist individuals and teams in improving their performance and…

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one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.

in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.

disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.

desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.

in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?

we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.

except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?

and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.

to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."

this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.

in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.

the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.

and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.

some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.

the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.

we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?

"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.

there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.

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I love you queer hockey fans I love you queer training and coaching staff I love you queer arena staff I love you queer hockey journalists I love you queer back office staff I love you queer front office staff I love you queer Zamboni drivers I love you queer mascot dudes (gn) I love you queer hockey players of all ages everywhere professional or not. You all exist and love this sport despite the efforts of many to make you invisible and unwelcome. I love you I love you I love you

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Kieran Culkin on Roman's playboy image and the way the actors/writers understanding of backstory fits together. (x)

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PLEASE STOP HARASSING DECK NINE DEVS AND LIS PLAYERS WHO DON'T AGREE WITH YOU.

Death threats are not okay.

Telling people to kill themselves is not okay.

Harassing people over fictional ships is not okay.

Harassing people over their opinion of a game is not okay.

Harassing already overstressed, overworked employees is not okay. ESPECIALLY since it's been documented they've been working under discriminatory and predatory management, been through multiple crunches, and have an unidentified neo-Nazi on their team who management did not properly address and fire.

You can still be critical of a game and not harass the people who made it. Hell, you can absolutely hate a game and still be respectful to the people who made it. I'm sure the creators are far more likely to listen to the fans if we give constructive criticism than if we irresponsibly and cruelly send threats.

I know most people who see this haven't sent hate, and to those people: this post isn't about you. I massively respect you for maintaining your rationality and empathy. But for those who have sent hate or are thinking of doing so, please reconsider. Sending hate isn't going to change anything; it'll only break the fandom even further apart and stress out overworked employees. If you're going to be mad, be mad at the higher-ups at Square Enix for turning the franchise into a cash cow and at the upper management at Deck Nine for overworking and alienating their employees. (Also be mad at that 1 neo-Nazi because seriously, WTF!?)

But please, even to the worst of the worst, do not send death threats or harass people.

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Sad Boy Hours: Billy Batson

He's trying so hard to get the screaming adults in the room to just stop screaming at each other and be reasonable.

He is immediately dismissed and storms off, justifiably insulted.

And Billy goes right back to blaming himself, trying to figure out where he went wrong, how he could have fixed things, managed the emotions of the room better--even though he is 100% correct and the adults are absolutely failing, and badly.

"Even if he's wrong...I should respect him." Honey, the thing that's eating at you is the absolute dogshit way they act and then expect you to just accept as normal. These grown-ass heroes should not be hitting each other.

And a degree, honey. Several of them.

He sounds like a teacher trying to get the class to behave and that script keeps failing him. Over and over the adults around him dismiss him for his optimism, ignore his calls for reason. And they're heroes. They're the good guys and they tear into each other regularly and viciously. And Billy is fifteen years old in a room of adults screaming at each other. The team is sometimes down right abusive, and this child is trying to keep them from falling apart.

I worry about him, ya know?

(anyway, thank you for coming to my Sad Boy Hours)

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can i be fr for a minute?? sending abuse to people online for holding different views than you is not activism and in fact actively hurts your cause. most people are not extreme in their viewpoints, you can give them a new perspective if you're willing to spend some time explaining shit. if someone is saying something you disagree with and you rush in there to condescend to them and call them disgusting and subhuman and dont even TRY to explain calmly why their views are harmful, they're going to shut you out instantly and double down on their views.

most people are simply genuinely ignorant to the issues they're talking about - they just pick their views up from the news and the world around them and express opinions because that's what every person does. if you run in there and tell them they're scum for it, what then? if someone does that to you, are you going to think "maybe i should do some research" or are you going to think "this person is an asshole, im blocking them." a lot of you think you're activists and then refuse to do any kind of actual WORK to support your cause.

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you know what, I actually will talk about this because it's bothering me. The issue with focussing so heavily on syd and carmy's potential for a romantic relationship isn't that there's something inherently unintellectual about romance or whatever, it's that a lot of people seem incapable of doing that without immediately flattening the story and ignoring or intentionally misreading any and all nuance for the sake of that romance. Every scene suddenly becomes about how it impacts their relationship, every analysis is done through a romantic lens, every frame or line of dialogue becomes about finding some easter egg or hint that "proves" these people should start dating. Their dynamic is absolutely a fundamental part of this show, but if you can only see it as a will-they-won't-they, you miss so much of what the story is actually trying to say with these two.

There are good versions of this story where their relationship is romantic and there are good versions of this story where it isn't, but as soon as you decide them being together is "the point," you lose the ability to actually judge the story for what it is, not what you want it to be.

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Aaand 9naa is doing it again.

Apparently the actors in Kiseki Chapter 2 had to film some of their intimate scenes fully naked and without previous intimacy coordination in that regard. It also seems like the crew jokingly offered to go naked too (because that makes things better /s) which suggests that again this was a pretty spontaneous decision.

The same thing already happened during the filming of Check Out and I now wonder if they pulled the same crap during Venus in the Sky (my only hope is that if they had, they wouldn't have kept quiet about it because apparently to them it's good promo 😒).

Funny how pretty much every other Thai BL production company manages to film beautiful intimate scenes without having the actors go completely naked...

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If anyone is interested in doing small things for the environment that takes very little time or effort, I recommend checking out Mossy Earth and Ecosia.

Mossy Earth is an organisation that does rewilding and conservation projects (mostly centered around Europe). They have a Youtube channel here where they post about their projects. They have a monthly subscription for £5, and the money is used to fund their projects.

Ecosia is a web browser like Google or Firefox. When you use the search engine, a portion of the ad revenue will go to Ecosia, which they use to plant trees and carry out other environmental projects such as investment in solar energy. They do work in countries all across the world. The browser also comes with a built-in adblocker. I switched to using exclusively Ecosia for browsing a long time ago and never looked back. You can also find Ecosia's YouTube channel here where they post their projects.

Both Mossy Earth and Ecosia have transparency pages where they report about how they use their funds. You should really check them out and watch some of their videos even if you don't plan on subscribing/using the browser. At the very least it can put a smile on your face to see people doing good work like this.

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its actually so insane how happy i am rn. just bought a new pc w the power of a small space station. and a bottle of cheap wine . got flirted with by the checkout guy. chips and dip acquired..... sims 4 installed....... datv exclusive queued up on youtube. this is what the scholars are talking abt when they talk abt self actualization btw