Workplace Productivity Essay

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Describe the factors that affect workplace productivity. Answer this question and support your decision in a paper (APA format). Post your 1 to 2 page paper by the due date. In general terms “workplace productivity factors (WPF)” are part of all working environments and differ only to the importance of the factor in its particular workplace. I have chosen to look at health related programs as WPF. In an article by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) titled “Workplace Health Promotion” dated Oct. 23, 2013 the CDC notes 4 particular thoughts: 1) Healthy employees are less likely to call in sick or use vacation time due to illness. 2) Companies that support a healthy workplace have more employees at work every day. 3) Employee health carries forward to lifestyle and can benefit not only the workplace also the employee, their family, and will reduce family leave time due to illness. 4) Presenteeism is the measurable extent to which illness and poor health can adversely affect productivity by those employees who choose to remain at work with negative health conditions (i.e. colds, flu). The report also states that cost savings of efficient workplace health programs can be measured against absenteeism as in overtime expense caused by absent employees, poor production by employees who choose presenteeism, and the cost of training replacement employees. This short essay explains how health issues are workplace productivity factors and explains how the affect productivity, unfortunately it does not address the implementation of workplace health promotion programs. My hope is that it provides food for thought for the development of health programs in the working environment, for future

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