Committing Corporate Lobotomy - Friday, December 05 2008
I read two unrelated articles in the November 11, 2004, issue of the Globe and Mail. The first article was reporting on the most recent study by Professor Linda Duxbury of Carleton University and released by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The study is intended as a discussion paper between work-life conflict and the demands on the public health care system. Dr. Duxbury has done an excellent job of mining the database she and her colleague Chris Higgins from the University of Western Ontario developed from survey results of some 31,500 Canadian employees.
They have presented compelling information on "role overload" experienced by 58% of the respondents in their survey. Put very simply people are working harder than ever and they are burning out. Statistics were released last year that showed the average rate of absenteeism in Canada has increased from 8 person days per year to 9 person days per year in 2002.
