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Dear
Reader
We are pleased
to bring you the final Communiqué
of 2008.
In the last two weeks we have been working with a number of
our clients who have been caught up in the tragic events in
Mumbai. We look here at the authorities' response to the terror
attacks and the shortcomings in the city's planning that are
now emerging.
As the number
of enquiries for our AbsenceGuard programme continues to increase,
we also look at ways of reducing unnecessary absence from the
workplace, and highlight how one person got caught out in hilarious
fashion!
In this
issue:
Thank you
as always for all the comments you send us. Please continue
to write to us with your suggestions. In the meantime, all of
us at docleaf would like to wish you a very merry Christmas
and all the best for a successful and crisis-free 2009.
Yours,
Andy Jarosz,
Editor. (andy.jarosz@docleaf.com)
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attacks - the need for coordinated response
In
the immediate aftermath of the recent terror attacks
in Mumbai, a number of analysts are citing the lack
of joined up response between the emergency services
and city authorities. The inability to communicate along
pre-defined and tested lines led to delays in critical
information reaching emergency workers and those seeking
news of their loved ones.
The
incident has once again highlighted the importance of
detailed planning before a crisis strikes, and the need
to exercise the possible scenarios to maximise the ability
to respond effectively.
Click
here
to read the article from the Economic Times.
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Absence Management - reducing sickness costs in your
workplace
Absences
from work cost UK industry around £666 per employee
each year. And yet accurate tracking of absence is a
vital first step that many companies simply do not use.
In his forthright article in People Management, Keith
Rodgers argues that simply having a visible absence
recording system in place will act as a deterrent to
many employees who might choose to take a "sickie".
Click
here
for the article, and contact us here
to get information on docleaf's AbsenceGuard solution.
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| Skiving
Aussie fingered on Facebook
As
a festive special, we thought you would enjoy this story.
It is an email exchange between an Australian call centre
employee and his line manager about a disputed sick
day.
Read
the Register article here.
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| Women
financial bosses would have averted Credit Crisis
The
excessive risk taking that has been blamed for the current
financial crisis is no more than a natural male behaviour.
Hordes of 21st century men, with no wars to fight and
subjected instead to the corporate battleground, have
cut their cloth, and lost their shirts, on gambles in
the stock market. In this entertaining and challenging
article, Emma De Vita argues the case for women to bring
their risk averse tendencies to bear in the post-crisis
business world.
Read
the Management Today article here:
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Briefs
An
eight-year-old German schoolboy who wanted to complain
to his mother about being sent out of class took his
teacher's car and crashed it, police said. (Reuters)
The boy,
banished from class for disrupting a lesson, pinched
the 40-year-old teacher's car key when she was not looking
and managed to start up her compact car, accelerating
and putting the vehicle into first gear.
"The
little fellow drove for about 25 yards before crashing
into a Volvo, also parked in the car park outside the
school," a police spokesman in the eastern German
city of Zwickau said on Thursday. The boy later told
police he had wanted to drive home to his mother to
complain about the teacher sending him out of class.
Police
estimated he caused 8,000 euros (6,695 pounds) of damage.
And
finally........A story from China that should sound
a warning to anyone planning a canoodle under the mistletoe
this Christmas.
A
passionate kiss ruptured a young woman's eardrum in
southern China, state media reported Monday, in what
has been dubbed the "kiss of deaf". The 20-something
girl from Zhuhai city in Guangdong province was treated
by hospital doctors after completely losing the hearing
in her left ear.
"The
kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum
out and caused the breakdown of the ear," the treating
doctor, surnamed Li, was quoted as saying, adding the
woman's hearing would likely recover in about two months.
The
incident prompted newspapers to dispense kissing safety
advice. "While kissing is normally very safe, doctors
urge people to proceed with caution", the China
Daily reported. "A strong kiss may cause an imbalance
in air pressure between the two inner ears and lead
to a broken ear drum."
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