Leave your problems at the door, or not!

Henry Ford once said, “Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?”

People’s problems are costing companies millions of dollars a year!  Check these stats out:

·Divorce costs U.S. businesses just over $11 billion annually.

·Family crises involving dependents cost businesses another $9 billion per year.

·87% of absenteeism is due to family problems not sickness.

·The death of a loved one, close friend, colleague is the grief incident that costs businesses the most annually - $37.5 billion.

·Major lifestyle changes for workers themselves (as opposed to crises involving their dependents) cost employers $2.4 billion annually

Have you ever seen people leave their problems at the door?  To make things worse you have companies that have no resources to assist their people so they both lose.  Life happens!

Many of you reading this today might be nodding your head in agreement and maybe even wished you would have had some help at some point in your career.  I wish we were all perfect and didn’t have problems but that’s just not the case.

87% of employees say they will work harder for a company that is willing to help them with their personal problems.  Wow, that is a huge number.  People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care!  No one wants to be a number that just walks in and then out at the end of the day.  They want to know they are valued and 'known!'  They want their world to count for something.  Everyone wants to feel they matter to someone!

In my next blog we will begin to dig into what other companies are doing and what really works.  There are so many ways to make this thing work for both employer and employee.  Happy employee happy bottom line I always say!

Jim Rohn says,

“Learn to help people with more than their job: help them with their lives!”

Until next time,

Helping make life work at home and office!