Personal illness accounts for just over one-third of unscheduled absences. Why? Family issues and caretaking, personal needs, stress, burnout, an “entitlement mentality” and probably a host of other (unreported) reasons.

According to the 2007 17th annual CCH Unscheduled Absence Survey by Harris Interactive:

Most people today are juggling the demands of busy personal and professional lives, and [...]

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86% of workers are experiencing job stress, and half of them describe their stress as “extreme fatigue” or “feeling out of control.”

Stressful work relationships and job demands in turn contribute to other problems such as burnout, errors on the job, emotional and physical distortions of perception, and safety problems and accidents. Ultimately, this results [...]

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