New Year's Resolutions are Good for Organizations Too Dr. Joe Aller, DHA, MBA, CPA Director, Analytics and Research, IBI 2021 was a challenging year for most of us, not just personally, but also professionally in the workplace. This new year marks a time for us to reflect on the past and adjust our course [...]
Employees know how to adapt when a co-worker is sidelined by illness: they pick up the slack where they can, help others fill in the gaps, or put things off until later. But do employees recognize the bigger impact of absences—day-in and day-out, across the entire organization—on their company's operations and how this makes it [...]
We review how the causes of death and longevity statistics have changed over the centuries, and even over the last few decades. We focus on what people can do in order to prolong their lives, including exercise, diet, stress management, and a focus on accident prevention. We also examine how the mission of Life Insurance [...]
This paper explains that people with disabilities need meaning and purpose in their lives, which for most of us, comes from purposeful work. The paper argues that for all of us, including employers, we need to focus on what employees can do, and provide opportunities for them to return to purposeful work [...]
