Comments on: Playing Hooky: Your Employer Wants to Know if You Are Really Sick http://results.envisialearning.com/playing-hooky-your-employer-wants-to-know-if-you-are-really-sick/ A blog by Envisia Learning for those who are truly interested in increasing organizational performance Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:08:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Cali and Jody http://results.envisialearning.com/playing-hooky-your-employer-wants-to-know-if-you-are-really-sick/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Cali and Jody Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:21:28 +0000 http://results.envisialearning.com/?p=61#comment-70 Ah, yes - good old presenteeism. Presenteeism exists because 'work' is still rooted in the 1950s. If we didn't give face time so much importance, presenteeism wouldn't exist. Everyone should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want - as long as the work gets done. Why? Because it improves productivity, employee engagement, and morale. It also improves voluntary turnover rates and helps organizations get rid of people that are just taking up space. And, it forces managers to be crystal clear about goals and expectations - and ensures everyone is focused on outcomes vs. activities. Giving people freedom over how they spend their time will eliminate presenteeism. Mark our words. Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson Creators of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) Authors of the forthcoming book "WHY WORK SUCKS AND HOW TO FIX IT" Ah, yes – good old presenteeism.

Presenteeism exists because ‘work’ is still rooted in the 1950s. If we didn’t give face time so much importance, presenteeism wouldn’t exist.

Everyone should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want – as long as the work gets done. Why? Because it improves productivity, employee engagement, and morale. It also improves voluntary turnover rates and helps organizations get rid of people that are just taking up space. And, it forces managers to be crystal clear about goals and expectations – and ensures everyone is focused on outcomes vs. activities.

Giving people freedom over how they spend their time will eliminate presenteeism. Mark our words.

Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson
Creators of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)
Authors of the forthcoming book “WHY WORK SUCKS AND HOW TO FIX IT”

]]> By: Michael L. Gooch, SPHR http://results.envisialearning.com/playing-hooky-your-employer-wants-to-know-if-you-are-really-sick/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Michael L. Gooch, SPHR Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:12:15 +0000 http://results.envisialearning.com/?p=61#comment-69 Allow me to retort with a look at absenteeism from a different angle.Th national trend that speaks to the work ethic of our workforce is the drastic escalation in unwed mothers. Nationwide, the birth rate for women having children without the stability of marriage is more than thirty-five percent. For black women alone, the rate is even higher, an estimated seventy percent. Kids raised without fathers around on a regular basis are twice as likely to drop out of school or become teenage parents. In addition, these kids are one-and-a-half times more likely to be without jobs. The number of unwed mothers was relatively small before the 1960s. Once President Johnson created the Great Society programs, the number of out-of-wedlock babies exploded. The shocking increase in absentee fathers has many roots. However, I ask anyone to look at a chart of the national number of unwed mothers over the past fifty years and tell me when the problem started. I detail this situation in my management book, Wingtips with Spurs: Lessons From the Ranch. I don’t care what certain segments of society claim; a fatherless child tends to grow up undisciplined and lazy. When this young person shadows your doorway, he or she becomes your personal problem as well as society’s. Before you go screaming about the virtues of single motherhood, I fully understand that there are exceptions to the rule. I know that single parents have raised many industrious, intelligent, contributing people. I have a great deal of respect not only for the child who grew into a productive adult in spite of the hardships but also for the parent who succeeded in this most important of endeavors. With that said, these exceptional people are not the norm. Allow me to retort with a look at absenteeism from a different angle.Th national trend that speaks to the work ethic of our workforce is the drastic escalation in unwed mothers. Nationwide, the birth rate for women having children without the stability of marriage is more than thirty-five percent. For black women alone, the rate is even higher, an estimated seventy percent. Kids raised without fathers around on a regular basis are twice as likely to drop out of school or become teenage parents. In addition, these kids are one-and-a-half times more likely to be without jobs. The number of unwed mothers was relatively small before the 1960s. Once President Johnson created the Great Society programs, the number of out-of-wedlock babies exploded. The shocking increase in absentee fathers has many roots. However, I ask anyone to look at a chart of the national number of unwed mothers over the past fifty years and tell me when the problem started. I detail this situation in my management book, Wingtips with Spurs: Lessons From the Ranch. I don’t care what certain segments of society claim; a fatherless child tends to grow up undisciplined and lazy. When this young person shadows your doorway, he or she becomes your personal problem as well as society’s. Before you go screaming about the virtues of single motherhood, I fully understand that there are exceptions to the rule. I know that single parents have raised many industrious, intelligent, contributing people. I have a great deal of respect not only for the child who grew into a productive adult in spite of the hardships but also for the parent who succeeded in this most important of endeavors. With that said, these exceptional people are not the norm.

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