Arresting Absenteeism Costs

[Jen Kirley]

Arresting Absenteeism Costs is Number 3 in the Stealth Quality Series.

As we found in the Stealth Quality Series’ first two articles, the cost of time is easy enough to measure. But how does one place a value on pushing back a strategy-making meeting because one must mess with the schedule again? How should one quantify the damage of postponing creating those financial analyses—again—because one needs to fill in for the bookkeeper during yet another payroll cycle?

Finally, measuring results is easy!

The Stealth Quality Series is written to suit a wide range of organizational managers. The articles describe subjects, explain the spreadsheet tools and include instructions with enough detail to empower even nonskilled spreadsheet users to succeed in real time analysis, today.

Contact me privately if you want to test run a ready-made copy of the calculators in Beta format.

Enjoy!

 

[ccochran]

Jennifer,

This is a very nice piece of writing and research on a topic that often gets glossed over. Your spreadsheet tools and your recommendations for action are all right on the mark. Let's hope businesses embrace these concepts.

Craig

 

[Jen Kirley]

Jennifer,

This is a very nice piece of writing and research on a topic that often gets glossed over. Your spreadsheet tools and your recommendations for action are all right on the mark. Let's hope businesses embrace these concepts.

Craig

Thanks Craig,

I expect it to be a subject that continues to get glossed over so long as the current thinking (fire the bums if they annoy us) prevails. But I had to cover it as the spectrum of productivity issues would be obviously missing a color without it. Also, it gives me a chance to show comparing two aspects on the same graph--I've observed this is hard for a surprising number of very smart people.

Baby steps, one thing at a time: for starters, to quit making mistakes more than once. When we can get them to think logically, we can move onward to preemptive problem solving.

 

[Barbara B]

Great article!

Jennifer,

thank you for publishing this article in the Cove

Barbara

 

[Kashifbutty2k]

A praise worth effort.

Keep it up.

 

[wmarhel]

Very nicely done Jennifer.

Wayne