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Healthcare professionals, pilots, truck drivers and shift workers have likely all experienced sleep deprivation, which negatively affects performance, safety, and quality of life. Researchers have developed a blood test that can accurately detect whether someone has been awake for 24 hours or more.Sleep deprivation can increase the risk of road and workplace accidents occurring, which also increases the likelihood of serious injury or fatality to self and others. It's also been linked to disease. Lack of sleep is common…

Red flag people in the workplace number 7: the person doing this is in a leadership position. It can really make people miserable. A red flag is policing people's word choice. I'm talking constantly finding fault with the words that people use to describe things, constantly correcting, constantly demanding that we dive into that word choice that you just use because I'm not sure I like the sound of that. I'm talking like a leader who will derail an entire 30 minute meeting because someone used the word 'escalate'…

I worked in a factory that had windows on one side. Upper management would give tours to important people to show off the factory. One of the maintenance guys got in a huge fistfight right next to the window just as a tour group walked by. QuirkyUser , Dan Burton / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report Headmaster of my daughter's school had an affair with a parent. She and her husband blackmailed the school to keep quiet. When that tactic didn't work, they outed him by 1) throwing fliers around…

The nomination deadline for The Denver Post’s Top Workplaces awards program has been extended to Dec. 15. So far, more than 300 Colorado companies have signed up to participate. Any organization with 50 or more employees in Colorado is eligible to participate (can be public, private, nonprofit or government). Workplaces are evaluated by their employees using a 24-question survey. Companies will be surveyed through January. Energage, The Post’s research partner for the project, conducts Top Workplaces surveys for media in…

by David C Baldridge, Brent John Lyons, Camellia Bryan and Liu-Qin Yang, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hearing loss is a critical diversity, equity and inclusion issue for managers and employers. Persons with hearing loss are a growing population around the world. According to the World Health Organization, over five percent of the world's…

At Clayton, a Tennessee-based home builder, some of its 26,000 employees say that the company’s diversity measures don’t go far enough. Others say those efforts go too far.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 At Clayton, a Tennessee-based home builder, some of its 26,000 employees say that the company’s diversity measures don’t go far enough. Others say those efforts go too far.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

So-called “grandternity" leave is rare. Tech company Cisco, consulting firm Mercer and hiring platform HireVue are among the handful companies that offer it. The time off can range from a day to a couple of weeks. The new form of leave—and other expanding benefits aimed at mid- and late-career employees, such as menopause time off—signal that more employers need older workers. In a tight labor market where there are more than 10 million open jobs, many firms still struggle to keep…

The role of efficiency and ease in the modern world has become forefronted when it comes to technology, particularly in the workplace. As the pandemic has shown, working from home or working within a hybrid model has proved to provide the functionality that a business needs without the cost of an at-capacity office.  Statistics have shown that most people would prefer working from home or within a hybrid model following the relaxation of lockdown rules, which shows how the world of work and the expectations of employees…

Great workplaces aren’t created by accident. They are built and nurtured. The Top Workplaces awards recognize the employers that do it well in the eyes of their employees. The heart of the Top Workplaces award is the employee survey process. Energage administers a 24-question survey to employees, who are the sole deciders of whether a company culture merits recognition. Bob Helbig This is the 12th year The Denver Post has partnered with Energage, an employee survey company based in Exton, Pennsylvania, to celebrate…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and math are still fighting an uphill battle in Australian workplaces, despite a spike in girls studying STEM subjects in schools and universities. That's the finding from a new report released by the University of South Australia today.…