TheJobBored

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 in […]

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The 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 with this […]

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I 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 you’re […]

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