Question

What will be the ill effects of employing an unhealthy worker

Answer 1

Reduced Efficiency/Productivity
We’ve often cited the stat that 20% of employee time is spent looking for information or people who can help. We use this stat because it is so critical in understanding where all the time is going. Isn’t that a question business leaders ask themselves regularly?

I’d say the large majority of companies are consistently and deliberately looking for ways to increase productivity while lowering costs. It’s a basic ROI concept. If you want to get the most out of the talent you have, give them the tools they need to do more. The 20 percent of their day wasted searching for people and information is low-hanging fruit you can quickly and easily get back simply by giving them communication tools that put all of that information at their fingertips. Email is not the answer. It is the problem. How much time do you spend digging through emails and email chains, trying to locate an attachment, reading through emails to find who said what, or sending emails that take hours, if not days, to get a response?