Time-off Wasn't Always a Thing.   According to an article in History.com, at the turn of the 20th century, workers got very little time off. A 1898 Massachusetts labor bulletin tracking the wages and hours of domestic workers in the Commonwealth documented that the average domestic cook worked between 78 and 83 hours a week at about 9 cents an hour. They could usually count on having Sunday off, and a lucky few may have been granted a half-day on Saturday.   Male factory workers had mostly similar work weeks, while state law only allowed women and children to work a maximum of 58...

Invisible Workplace Stressors Caregiving – An Invisible Workplace Stressor   What would you do if you found out that a sizable portion of your workforce is so stressed, day after day, that they could barely function?   First, you’d probably want to know why and what you could change in your business to fix it. That’s admirable. But, inaccurate. The stressors are not originating in the workplace. There’re spilling over from outside.   Childcare   Of the one-third of the workforce with children under 18, 41% admit that it severely hampers their job performance.   Although most companies acknowledge the childcare problems facing a significant portion of their workforce, a recent report...

The latest jobs report revealed that U.S. employers added 206,000 jobs in June. The good news is that although interest rates are still high, the American economy is still jugging along nicely. The bad news, if we can call it that, is that the June job growth was down from the prior month (218,000). The economy is still growing, but slower.   As reported by the Associated Press (and published in Inc.) “Economists been repeatedly predicting that the job market would lose momentum in the face of high interest rates engineered by the Fed, only to see the hiring gains show unexpected...

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How can a basic psychological principle benefit your business? Employees are hard to find. Good employers are even harder to find. If you’re lucky enough to hire the latter, you might find it a struggle to keep them. WHY DO EMPLOYEES LEAVE? Although there are multiple reasons an employee may leave, in the end, almost all of them boil down to one thing: stress. If an employee is stressed, they are not going to be happy. If they are not happy, they’ll only be with you until they find something else. To avoid this, you need to meet their needs. What better metric to...