THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Money

“Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.” - Max Amsterdam

Practical Plan for When You Feel Overwhelmed

http://management.about.com/od/money/a/DepressionCosts.htm

Everybody gets sad once in a while. Ten to twenty percent of the US workforce gets clinically depressed each year. That depression costs you money in terms of absenteeism, lost productivity, reduced quality, employee turnover and on-the-job accidents. A 2003 study put the cost at over $44 billion per year.
What can you do about it?

Train your managers to recognize the symptoms and deal with them in a compassionate, but direct manner.

* The article "The Effects Of Depression In The Workplace", from Mental Health InfoSource provides a list of symptoms to look for.
* Here are some of the common sources of depression in the workplace (see upper right list).

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