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Yeah, they've been doing that for a while. It's working out just as well as you'd expect, although I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft were super-happy with the change. "People are so much more engaged! Sure, it's a load of "Actually Trump's policies are great" gibberish but hey -- look at the number of likes!" Anyway, since I'm posting screenshots: if I've never heard of a company I'll check its Glassdoor page and uh 
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VanguardFelix posted:
Actually this weightloss regime is a mandatory activity that counts towards your fitness goals. You will of course not be reimbursed for food which has been thrown up.
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Eric the Mauve posted:You might think HBO added extra rape when adapting from the books because HBO but in fact if anything HBO toned it down If I remember right, the original books also include necrophilia and some pretty hardcore sadism.
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Tnuctip posted:Actually this weightloss regime is a mandatory activity that counts towards your fitness goals. You will of course not be reimbursed for food which has been thrown up. What kind of company has fitness goals?
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sbaldrick posted:What kind of company has fitness goals? My former employer and current employer both have on-site fitness centers and both did some sort of Biggest Loser-style competition each year. Keeping your employees healthy and active is a good way to keep your health care costs down, though in neither case were you required to participate or use the facilities. Employer-mandated fitness goals sound completely ridiculous and possibly illegal for most industries.
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C-Euro posted:My former employer and current employer both have on-site fitness centers and both did some sort of Biggest Loser-style competition each year. Keeping your employees healthy and active is a good way to keep your health care costs down, though in neither case were you required to participate or use the facilities. Employer-mandated fitness goals sound completely ridiculous and possibly illegal for most industries. You can penalize your employees for not participating in fitness and health programs by cutting your contributions to benefit costs and then offering the amount back as an incentive to those who participate. My previous two employers both did this. They reduced contributions toward your insurance premiums by $500 annually, which you regained as a "bonus contribution" for doing all the health and blood panels, voluntary drug testing, BMI / weight stuff, and checking in with a health counselor twice a year (for one of the two companies; the other didn't have the checkins). I think in the USA it was called illegal to penalize directly (and honestly, I'm not even 100% certain about that or if it was just legally considered risky so nobody did it), but as usual, the roundabout approach amounting to the same thing is perfectly okay.
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Insurance companies are very, very big on relentlessly pushing "voluntary" "wellness" programs so as to obtain medical data on employees, which can be helpful for denying claims later. I've seen several corporate environments in the past couple years--particularly where HR is powerful--where anyone who resisted participating in the Wellness Program was very much branded Not A Team Player by management and told, just short of explicitly, that their refusal to participate was going to move them to the front of the staff cuts line. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Jun 25, 2018 00:19
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So it’s one of those “American healthcare is for idiot things” Which explains why no where I’ve ever worked as an adult would try it.
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The large company I work for only incentivizes it with poo poo like gift cards (soon to go away due to some Trump tax plan thing I think).
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Large employers are generally self-insured which means they pay all employee health care costs themselves (the insurance company charges a flat amount per person per year in fees and routes all costs to the employer). That means they're generally the most interested in reducing those costs and often have pushed insurance companies to up their game in terms of wellness/etc. Not only do employers pay for health care costs but their drones lose productivity due to sick days, leaving the office for doctor's visits, and simply working more slowly while sick so they do what they can to keep their worker cogs in good shape. That's why employers were the first to explore the legality of firing people who smoke cigarettes.
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Yeah and maybe the biggest thing there is that from a cost controlling standpoint it's very helpful to have a good idea of whose health is likely to crater past age ~45 and unload them before that happens.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah and maybe the biggest thing there is that from a cost controlling standpoint it's very helpful to have a good idea of whose health is likely to crater past age ~45 and unload them before that happens. Yes but that would be not only unethical but also illegal and AH HA HA HA HA SORRY COULDN'T FINISH.
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therobit posted:Yes but that would be not only unethical but also illegal and AH HA HA HA HA SORRY COULDN'T FINISH. Soon to be unveiled at companies near you! The new Soylent Early Retirement Package TM, we can guarantee a reduction in your healthcare costs or your money back!
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Hey uh. I think someone isnt on mute. Can everyone go on mute please?
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Can you all go on mute? We can hear you talking in the background.
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This dumb fucker over here is saying someone isn't on mute but I don't hear anything- oh poo poo
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[typing in the skype group chat] Someone isn't on mute. Please everyone go on mute.
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NomNomNomnom
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Sleepytime posted:NomNomNomnom This username resonates with me today
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I'm the person who says their mute wasn't turning off when they were trying to respond to a question but was actually taking a second to turn off my game sound and set my controller down.
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I'm sorry can you repeat that? My phone broke up a bit. Heh, you know, phones these days. Translation: I wasn't paying attention until I heard my name so I have no idea what you said.
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I was on a Sunday morning outage bridge call a while back and had to pleasure to listen to someone's daughter throw a temper tantrum because she wanted pancakes. I'm not using the word "pleasure" ironically. It was really funny.
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*morning zoo show from another part of the country* *wind noise, car horns* "Hey it's me, I'm on the road, can I get a recap?"
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Ubiquitous video conferencing is magical and I can never go back to voice bridges holy poo poo
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*babies screaming in the background* *dog barks* "Sorry, someone stepped into my office for a second. Could you repeat that last part?"
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*hold music* I’d be remiss to not repost the amazing conferencecall.biz site here
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WHO JUST JOINED THE CALL?
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Not related to conference calls Coworker: *looks at folder of document change request that are emails sent to me with labels reflecting their contents* *Creates text document called [Tool Name] to make change request*
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"Hey sorry can everyone hold on for just one second? I just need to take care of something real fast." *leaves forever* "I heard six or seven beeps just now, who just joined?" *everyone answers at the exact same time* "I'm sorry, who just joined? *everyone answers at the exact same time again* disjoe fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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We really should just embed conferencecall.biz as the background for this thread and call it a day.
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Sundae posted:We really should just embed conferencecall.biz as the background for this thread and call it a day. That's just cruel and unusual punishment.
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Sundae posted:We really should just embed conferencecall.biz as the background for this thread and call it a day. Paging Moneyball to the corporate thread
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Sundae posted:We really should just embed conferencecall.biz as the background for this thread and call it a day. my office has a conferencecall.biz endurance challenge - how long can you listen before you give up? we all sit around it in someones office, you can leave at any time, winner is declared the Conference Call Master
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