Why should managers not allow employees to overwork?

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Peet van Biljon  (Co-author of Profit with a Higher Purpose)

 
Peet van Biljon explains why it doesn’t make sense to let employees overwork. He discusses research that proves that if employees are tired or overworked they are not productive and the extra work generally adds no value to the business.

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Peet van Biljon

Co-author of Profit with a Higher Purpose

Peet van Biljon advises clients on strategy, innovation, new product development(NPD), and new business building. Peet focuses on management challenges related to Industry 4.0 and on the impact of transformative technologies such as AI, digitization, fintech and IoT. He previously managed McKinsey’s global innovation practice from 2010 to 2015. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy where he teaches a graduate course on innovation. Peet is currently involved in initiatives to set ethical guidelines for technology and co-chairs the General Principles Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS). In 2017 he published a book on business ethics, Profit with a Higher Purpose, and subsequently developed Ethics-driven Innovation®, an innovation process to help clients meet the highest ethical standards.

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Tracey Fitzpatrick

Tracey Fitzpatrick

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Market News Video Anchor

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