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In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
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Pain in the Neck
Sickness absence in the workplace: who's sick - the worker or the organisation? Sometimes people are too ill to work, sometimes perhaps they just don't feel like it. According to the labour experts absenteeism in Britain has been stubbornly high for the last three decades. For employers, the CBI estimates being absent is costing 12 billion pounds a year in lost days at work. On average a public sector worker is off 9.1 days every year, in the private sector the average is 6.4 days. So is Britain a nest of malingerers or is there something wrong with the way we work, or the way work works? Interviewees:
Peter Holloway, Head of People and Organisation Development, British Airways
Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director, International Institute for Society and Health at University College London
Adrian Ringrose, Chief Executive, Interserve
John Allen, Head of Employee Relations, Royal Mail
Hugh Robertson, Senior Policy Officer - Health and Safety, TUC
Steven Bevan, Director of Research, The Work Foundation
Professor Edward Lawler, University of Southern California Business School
Philip Augar, author, The Greed Merchants and The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
Work in Progress
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