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How do health risks affect work absences and productivity? The evidence that demonstrates that employees with multiple health risks (such as obesity, high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, tobacco use, etc.) are more likely to take time off work and be less productive when they are at work.
Choose a study from the list below.
- Excessive sleepiness impairs health and productivity
- The business costs of poor sleep
- Worker productivity and performance is affected by waking up in the night
- Insomnia predicts future sick leave
- Fatigue-related lost productive time associated with high financial losses
- High cost of diabetic neuropathy to US economy
- Major depression and chronic pain linked to absenteeism
- Productivity-related costs seriously impact full cost of health conditions
- BMI linked to short-term disability and lost work days
- Health-related productivity costs high for smokers
- Job performance associated with health status of employees
- Working conditions, strongly influence job performance
- Absence rates and duration rise with number of risk factors
- Bipolar disorder associated with high absence-related costs
- Economic impact of presenteeism exceeds direct medical care costs
- Good health status boosts employee productivity
- Health risk factors and productivity linked to sizable loss
- Obesity leads to lost productive time
- Pain cripples work place performance
- Health risk status and on-the-job productivity strongly linked
- Pain leads to drop in productivity and financial losses
- Poor sleep contributes to declines in productivity
- Strong link between health risks and absence costs
- Four or more health risk factors double risk of absenteeism
- Health risk status influences employee compensation costs
- Lack of exercise linked to raised illness-related absence
- Medical conditions impair work performance
- Obesity directly increases absenteeism