No wonder some companies are getting known for not being a wonderful place to work anymore and again this is all driven mostly be analytics to where we have forgotten to treat people as humans. Certainly there are those who abuse it but I 
would rather see a few of those cases get by rather than running a detective service that has to resort to this level.
How does one prove they need a “mental health day”? We all need these here and there today occasionally and the article said over 50% of people take a sick day here and there when they are not really sick. Well I guess you could get one of those biometric Wellness companies to do this too with collecting data and adding to the data. I’m not saying that anyone is currently doing this.
IF DOLLARS AND PROFITS ARE TO BE MADE, CODE WILL BE WRITTEN AND EXECUTED.
" Ahearn says. "Whoever has better technology usually wins."
A mental health day could involve going somewhere with your kids too and if one does not have or has exhausted their vacation leave, what else do they do. Again I hope this would be done only in cases where fraud is suspected but with technology and sensors, the folks addicted to data and devices would roll it out there everywhere if they though a few sick days was hurting their bottom line. This certainly makes a case for biometric sensing that some companies offer, as what is the objective here and with technology it is getting so cheap that so much surveillance could be done via the web.
Folks like Red Brick will have employer programs to predict behavior with some efforts using biometrics so again we have some lines here perhaps crossing as to when is it considered monitoring and when does it become flat out spying.
RedBrick Behavior Based Wellness/Employer Insurance Company Acquires Social Kinetics
Perhaps the goal is to predict when you will really be sick too? <grin>. If you read all over the web today it does say a break from intense technology is a good thing and perhaps this is why the Pfizer CEO had to quit…he had enough. Also for goodness sakes don’t post you day’s events on Facebook or other social networks unless you want to make it real easy to find what you did during your sick day.
Excessive Incentives and Rules – Where Did the Wisdom Go in HealthCare?
When you read the clip below they went so far as to get a picture of a healthcare worker on a ride at an amusement park, so was this not a “mental health day” possibly? Just imagine coming back to work and the employer throwing those pictures in your face. We definitely need some balance here as to how to appropriately use technology with good sense and not just spy and gather data “because we can” as it will lead to an even angrier community and trust fall several layers down the level. The reference by the way is a Florida Healthcare employee so there’s one that has some spies contracted. BD
They are not alone in their ambition. Earlier this year, Raymond investigated an employee at a Florida health organization who called in sick with the flu for three days. As Raymond discovered, she was actually visiting the Universal Studios theme park. "On some of those roller coasters, they take your picture at a really sharp turn, and then you can buy it at a kiosk," Raymond recalls. "She went on three rides, and I bought all three of her pictures, which had the date at the bottom." When confronted with the evidence by her employers, Raymond says her first response was, "That's not me!" After they played Raymond's video of her volunteering at the theme park's animal show, her only defense was, "I don't even remember that!" She was fired.
sick-day-bounty-hunters: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
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