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Note from The Social Workplace: Below is a combination of excerpts from HR Communicator and FocusonMexico.com. And by the way… our personal source of daily laughter is to read posts from DamnYouAutoCorrect.com. You should check it out (although it’s not intended for the faint of heart!).

A good laugh increases productivity, teamwork, employee retention, and job satisfaction, writes Karen McConnaughey in FocusonMexico.com. Today is April Fools’ Day and the start of Celebrate National Laugh at Work Week. Need some suggestions to keep the positive humor coming? McConnaughey offers 19 tips for getting a good laugh. You can read the comics or incorporate a fun ritual into your daily routine. Laughter is good for your health and that’s no joke. — Maggie Glynn, HR Communicator

National Laugh at Work Week – starts on April 1 (April 1-7, 2011)

Have a giggle-fest
By Karen McConnaughey, FocusonMexico.com

There actually is some truth to the old saying, “laughter is the best medicine.” Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan of Loma Linda University in California discovered that laughing lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones and boosts immune function.

If you’re an employer, why not take this week to run a multi-tiered humor-based campaign geared to your employees and clients? If you’re not at work, hand out toys to people you meet.

Laughter stimulates the release of endorphins, which are your body’s natural relaxants. A good laugh increases productivity, teamwork, employee retention, and job satisfaction. Humor also increases communication throughout the workplace and decreases stress levels.

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Original Post: Toby, Ward, Prescient Digital Media

Employees shouldn’t waste too much time on the intranet; social media wastes time; the Internet is a productivity drain. These are common refrains and concerns expressed by many executives, albeit the less educated ones, generally of an older generation, nearing or past retirement.

The exact same concerns were made about employee bathroom breaks, mealtimes, telephone use, etc. General Motors, that great stalwart of financial prudence, used to hire people to time employees when they used the bathroom (source: Negotiate This, Herb Cohen).

“When speaking to clients the issue of productivity is often a concern,” says Jonas Lood, senior consultant with Prescient Digital Media (intranet consultants / specialists). “I frequently get asked “how do we leverage our intranet to improve information sharing, protect intellectual property while at the same time reducing the cost per employee?”

Every organization wants to maximize profit (cash flow) and ultimately, productivity drives profit; and so does innovation.

“When productivity rates leap, so do enterprise profits. In the past century, we have automated blue-collar work, wringing more products out of every worker hour,” says Susan Feldman, IDC analyst and author of the report, Hidden Costs of Information Work: A Progress Report. “But in an economy that is now more information based than industrial, increasing the productivity of the information worker has become imperative.”

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