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		<title><![CDATA[Global wellness strategies: the U.S. is unique, but all regions' businesses disconnect strategies from priorities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/news-analysis/global-wellness-strategies-regions-businesses/20876/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Employers across the world recognize the value of employee health and well-being, both to their organizations and to their individual workers.    Buck Consultants  surveyed over 1,000 organizations in 45 countries and found that, globally, health promotion that focuses on worker productivity is spreading.  However, employers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:57:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Â£165bn loan keeps Lloyds afloat Lloyds Banking is being sustained by Â£165bn in loans and guarantees from the Bank of England -- approaching the Â£200m of quantitative easing allocated to support the UK economy. This should, says Lloyds, be set against the context of its Â£1trn balance sheet, but its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:58:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No Promotion? Blame It on the 401(k)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/retirement-beat/no-promotion-blame-it-on-the-401k/155/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, yet another reason to pile even more scorn on the the flawed 401k: A just-released GAO study that takes a look at the 401k auto-enrollment trend presents an interesting motivation for why employers are warming up to auto-enrollment:  â€œA representative of a large plan consulting firm noted that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:22:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Downward Dog, Upward Productivity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/teamwork/?p=1125]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you see a co-worker in a neighboring cubicle contorting into a strange pose, relax. She's probably not having a convulsion. Rather, it's more likely that she has embraced the latest workplace stressbuster: yoga.    A pilot study published in the journal Health Education & Behavior found that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:43:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Bosses "Forget" Their Mistakes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/stanley-bing/?p=464]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Stanley,          Aaaah -- where do I begin? What can I do with an administrator (not my direct boss, but someone who can easily make my life difficult and cost my company our contract) who "forgets" she said something and insists...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:09:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Darkest Side to Workplace and Economic Stress: Suicide]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/teamwork/?p=1283]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a tough year or two for most of us, what with the economy imploding, jobs getting slashed, and home values plummeting. But for a few, it's proven too much too handle.    According to The New York Times, workplace suicides rose significantly from 2007 to 2008,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:33:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Contractor Nightmares (and How to Avoid Them)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one foresees workplace nightmares. But when you hire contract workers, they're even more likely to occur.                      The Disappearing Contractor    	  	  Barring, say,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Companies Firing People Over Social Media (Mis)use]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees should be more careful than ever about what sort of work-related information they post online.  A new report indicates that companies are growing increasingly aware of inappropriate sharing, with many incidents resulting in someone getting fired. Proofpoint found that businesses have definitely become wary about blogs.  An official statement...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:58:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jim Loehr: Train for Success Like a Pro Athlete]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/career-advice/article/jim-loehr-train-for-success-like-a-pro-athlete/325140/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget time management. According to productivity guru Jim Loehr,  energy is the ultimate renewable resource, and managing it correctly could be  the key to increasing your human capital.    	At least that&#8217;s the philosophy of Jim Loehr, a  productivity guru and performance psychologist with the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does Blogging Ease Work-Life Worries?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/07/21/does-blogging-ease-work-life-worries/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  The unexamined life may not have been worth living to Socrates, but in the age of blogging, there's such a thing as too much introspection, suggests Naomi Schaefer Riley in the WSJ.  The 'streams of consciousness... once reserved for women chatting over cups of coffee" are now...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Workplace Workouts Can Pump Up Productivity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/teamwork/?p=1158]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your staff feeling sluggish? Has there been a rash of sick days lately? Is your team complaining of low energy, stress, or just not feeling excited and engaged about work?    Maybe it's time to whip them into shape.    Many employers are paying new...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:40:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Manage Stress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You're doing the job of two, handling even crankier  customers than usual, and worried you'll never be able to retire. But  now is not the time to blow a gasket.                Understand Stress ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[7 Signs You're Creating Your Own Workplace Stress]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=2445]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick, by a show of hands, how many of you have workplace stress? Almost everybody, great. Now, how much of that stress do you think is self-imposed? What, no hands? Well, I'm not surprised, but you may be in for one. You see, most people make their own stress. Not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Want to Reform Health Care? Improve the Workplace]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=2372]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[     According to the World Health Organization, the U.S. spends by far the most per capita on health care but by most measures ranks not even in the top 30 countries in terms of health-care outcomes. If we want to improve Americans' health and reduce our...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:00:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Recession Time. Do You Know Where Your Employee Engagement Is?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/teamwork/?p=1012]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When reading through my pal Derek Irvine's Globoforce blog the other day, I came across an interesting citation for a Gallup poll that purported to advise managers how to enhance employee engagement when faced with the prospect of a continued recession.    According to the report, engagement --...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 07:56:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Workplace Stress Always Bad?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/05/26/is-workplace-stress-always-bad/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    We have the stress test for US banks. Now we need a stress test for managers.    The Samaritans reckon that workplace stress costs British industry Â£3.8bn. In the US, it's closer to $300bn, proving that Americans do everything on a grander scale than...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 03:28:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managers Still Suffering Skill Shortages in the Recession]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/05/22/managers-still-suffering-skill-shortages-in-the-recession/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems surprising that while organisations continue to reduce headcounts, a third of senior HR professionals we recently surveyed reported skill and staff shortages as a continuing problem, despite having to make layoffs.    With pay freezes, bonus pools reductions, ongoing redundancies and training plans shelved, this creates...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:34:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post comes from Larry Dignan of ZDNET, one of BNET's sister sites.)    This in from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: You must bring your smartphone, laptop and every other work-tethering item on your vacation. If not, youâ€™ll just worry about being laid off.  ...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[My UK colleague Joanna Higgins blogged this week about a report that suggests women are better at leading in a crisis.    She wrote that the DDI report, entitled "Holding Women Back," found that:  "...men were potentially more likely to buckle in a crisis than women 'because...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Ways to Deal with Stress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feel stress — often resulting from the idea that you've lost control, which is a common sensation nowadays — and confidence erodes. Different people experience stress from different conditions and situations, so there isn't one recipe for beating it. But you can learn to change your reaction to it. ...]]></description>
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