Getting Your Employees' Attention Back to Work

Written by Michael Christian


Getting Your Employees’ Attention Back to Work By Michael Christian

It is 9:00 am on a Monday morning. Do you know where your employees’ attention is? Is it on work?

Picture this. You are at work. The phone rings. It is your aging father’s neighbor calling to say that Dad is walking around outside in his pajamas and seems confused. You have a full day of meetings and deadlines. Your heart sinks as you try to figure out how to care for your dad and keep your job.

The phone rings again. This time it isrepparttar school nurse saying that your asthmatic child is having trouble breathing.

According torepparttar 115512 American Productivity Audit, one-third of respondents said dependent health concerns were a top reason employees were not able to focus on their job while at work.

What you may not know is thatrepparttar 115513 situations above can just as likely happen to a working woman as to a working man. However if a woman getsrepparttar 115514 troubling phone call, she is more likely to talk about it at work whilerepparttar 115515 man will not (2003 National Alliance for Caregiving national survey).

Millions of working adults - men and women - are jugglingrepparttar 115516 competing demands of caring for a chronically ill or disabled parent, raising a family, and managing a career.

Working caregivers sacrifice leisure time, and often suffer stress-related illnesses. Negative effects on working caregivers include time lost from work, lower productivity, quitting a job to provide care, lost career opportunities and lower future earnings. Eventually, some 16 percent quit their jobs to provide care full-time. Work disruptions due to employee caregiving responsibilities result in productivity losses of $1,142 per year per employee. According torepparttar 115517 Washington Post, researchers estimate thatrepparttar 115518 cost of informal caregiving in terms of lost productivity to U.S. businesses is $29 billion annually.

Caregiving Takes Work-Life Toll

A recent MetLife study dubbed "Juggling Act" revealed some ofrepparttar 115519 productivity-killing adjustments that caregivers choose to make to their work schedules:

-84% make phone calls -69% arrive late or leave early -67% take time off duringrepparttar 115520 workday -29% make up work at another time

In addition, a national survey conducted byrepparttar 115521 National Alliance for Caregiving in 1997 found that two in ten working caregivers turned downrepparttar 115522 opportunity to work on special projects; almost as many avoided work-related travel. Forty percent ofrepparttar 115523 survey respondents said that caregiving affected their ability to advance in their jobs.

Seborrheic Dermatitis: An Over-the-Counter Remedy

Written by Tameka Norris


Don't you just hate depending on prescription medicine to control your Seborrheic Dermatitis?

I did! When I was first diagnosed with Seborrheic Dermatitis five years ago I was relieved to finally find out what I had.

Thenrepparttar doctor prescribed me with a cream that I needed to use to control it. I found outrepparttar 115511 size ofrepparttar 115512 tuberepparttar 115513 cream came in and how much it cost.

Needless to say, I was no longer relieved.

I could handle treating this condition on a recurring basis. But relying on a doctor's prescription was something else altogether.

If I was going to haverepparttar 115514 condition, I wanted as much freedom that I could get with it.

After concluding how I felt about it I decided to research repparttar 115515 subject a little further to find out what Seborrheic Dermatitis was. And to see if there was a way to live with repparttar 115516 condition using over-the-counter medicine.

My first question was...

What is Seborrheic Dermatitis exactly?

And this is what I found out:

Seborrheic Dermatitis, also known as "facial dandruff", is said to be a common inherited skin disorder. Found more often in men than in women. It is a chronic occurrence of inflamed skin believed to be caused byrepparttar 115517 build-up of a yeast-like organism inrepparttar 115518 sebaceous glands. The yeast-like organism is known as Pityrosporum Ovale.

Common symptoms of Seborrheic Dermatitis are redness, itchiness, flaking, greasiness and/or scaliness.

The areas that are most commonly affected by Seborrheic Dermatitis arerepparttar 115519 scalp, eyebrows, eyelids, sides ofrepparttar 115520 nose,repparttar 115521 flesh behindrepparttar 115522 ears, mouth region, mid-chest area.

Other less commonly infected areas arerepparttar 115523 armpits, breasts, naval, buttocks, and groin.

I was only experiencing it on my face.

The areas that were affected on my face were: my eyelids, eyebrow region,repparttar 115524 sides of my nose, andrepparttar 115525 sides of my mouth.

Once I understoodrepparttar 115526 cause of Seborrheic Dermatitis I then dedicated my time to finding an over-the-counter remedy.

It took me hours before I ran across a very valuable website. One that would give merepparttar 115527 exact information that I needed.

The name ofrepparttar 115528 site was American Family Physician:

Treatment of Seborrheic Dermatitis www.aafp.org/afp/20000501/2703.html

Had it not been for this very site I would have never thought to controlrepparttar 115529 inflammation on my face by simply washing my face with dandruff shampoo everyday. It wasrepparttar 115530 missing ingredient that I was looking for.

I knew I needed one product to take care ofrepparttar 115531 inflammation and another product to take care ofrepparttar 115532 itchiness and flaking.

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