Your GP's advice You should not go back to work before the end date on your fit note if a GP has advised that you should stay off work for the full period covered by the fit note, and they want to see you again. Do I need a note saying I'm fit for work? You do not need to see a GP again to be signed fit to go back to work. Going back to work You do not need to be fully fit to go back to work. For example: your employer may agree to make some changes to help you return if your health condition no longer affects your ability to do your normal duties, you may be able to return, even though you've only partly recovered Examples of changes that your employer could consider include: having you return to work gradually — for example, by working part-time having you work different hours temporarily giving you different duties or tasks giving you other support to do your job, such as avoiding heavy lifting Depending on your job, you may need to meet other requirements before you can return to work.
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UK: taking sick leave GOV. Pulse checks are really insightful—they give me a good dose of reality…and they surfaced issues that resulted in more cross-coverage, people development, and teamwork.
It sounds crazy that this little experiment could create these sorts of results, but it has profound implications far beyond the initial goal. We suggest brief weekly check-ins for a few months, until the new norms, processes, and attitudes are in place. After that, every other week should do it. Regardless of the frequency of pulse checks, people should have regular, structured forums in which to express their frustrations and surface problems as well as to improve how the team works together.
Perlow June We have found that a group can change its approach to meetings as long as the team leader has the authority to encourage people to raise issues, take risks, make mistakes, and discover new ways of working together.
This can happen even if the group is closely connected to other groups in the organization. As we have witnessed at multiple companies in a range of industries, altering something as basic as meetings can have far-reaching implications. We helped each other prioritize, we helped each other find access to other resources, and sometimes we reallocated tasks or simply helped each other do the work. Meetings do not have to be a trap; they can be a conduit for change.
In the end, better meetings—and better work lives—result. You have 1 free article s left this month. You are reading your last free article for this month.
Subscribe for unlimited access. Create an account to read 2 more. Meeting management. Stop the Meeting Madness. How to free up time for meaningful work by Leslie A. The Solution Groups must first figure out what kind of time their meetings tend to waste—group, individual, or both. How Is Your Group Vulnerable? Other respondents said their meetings fall into one of these categories: Wasters of group time.
How much time outside normal business hours did you spend on your work? Do you see patterns in the best meetings that could be replicated elsewhere? How else might you leverage the lessons from the productive meetings? What sets the best meetings apart from the rest Just how bad the worst meetings are, and why Ideas for extending positive practices throughout the organization. A version of this article appeared in the July—August issue pp.
Read more on Meeting management or related topics Time management and Personal productivity. Leslie A. She conducts research and advisory work on psychological safety, well-being at work, team dynamics, and inclusive cultures. Her goal is to help organizations identify and address pain points so that work life can be improved for all employees.
Partner Center. Look at your work calendar for the week ahead: What emotions does it evoke in you? How negatively people feel about meetings in your organization How much rationalization or defensiveness supports the status quo. Now look at your work calendar for the past three weeks: How many meetings did you attend, and how much time did you spend in them altogether?
Safety concerns. For more information, view WorkSafe New Zealand's Fatigue quick guide external link If employees have safety concerns about the hours they are required to work, they should discuss this with their employer, union or Worksafe New Zealand external link. Cutting back or increasing hours. Having to be available for work or shifts. Cancellation of shifts. To determine how much is a reasonable amount to pay for shift cancellation, you must consider all the relevant factors, including: the shift cancellation notice period in the employment agreement and what the employee would have been paid if they had worked the shift, and if the type of work means the employee would have incurred costs preparing for the shift.
Employees under 16 years. Early Resolution Service. Fatigue quick guide An employers guide to managing shift work to minimise workplace fatigue on the WorkSafe website. Subscribe to our email newsletter Receive news and updates each month from Employment New Zealand. Other links you might find useful Payment for annual holidays Calculating leave payment Resolving problems Employment agreements Relevant daily pay and average daily pay.
How helpful was this information? On average, they found that:. Sadun and Polzer also analyzed meeting invitations—the quantity, duration, and number of attendees—and observed that:. Perhaps most striking: As researchers compared the time when people started sending emails and attending meetings each day and when they ended, they saw that the average workday lasted 8.
To tackle some of these questions, Sadun has been studying how knowledge workers have been spending their time during the pandemic and how those activities affect their moods and perceived effectiveness. So far, the preliminary conclusions have been highly varied and personal. The pandemic workforce has created a significant challenge for managers, Sadun says.
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