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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

The American Institute of Stress in 2014 estimated that around $300 billion is lost each year in America due to stress related absenteeism and health costs. His aim is to help small businesses professionalise by filling in the missing gaps that are holding them back, whether marketing or administration, sales or bookkeeping.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits. These extra hours were not part of the manager’s labor budget and were only given to the stores that were identified as likely to increase their sales by Co-PI Kesavan’s analysis. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity.

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