Waterways Corporation is a private corporation formed for the purpose of providing the products and the services needed to irrigate farms, parks, commercial projects, and private lawns. It has a centrally located factory in a U.S. city that manufactures the products it markets to retail outlets across the nation. It also maintains a division that performs installation and warranty servicing in six metropolitan areas.

The mission of Waterways is to manufacture quality parts that can be used for effective irrigation projects that also conserve water. By that effort, the company hopes to satisfy its customers, perform rapid and responsible service, and serve the community and the employees who represent them in each community.

The company has been growing rapidly, so management is considering new ideas to help the company continue its growth and maintain the high quality of its products.

Waterways was founded by Will Winkman who is the company president and chief executive officer (CEO). Working with him from the company’s inception is Will’s brother, Ben, whose sprinkler designs and ideas about the installation of proper systems have been a major basis of the company’s success. Ben is the vice president who oversees all aspects of design and production in the company.

The factory itself is managed by Todd Senter who hires his line managers to supervise the factory employees. The factory makes all of the parts for the irrigation systems. The purchasing department is managed by Helen Hines.

The installation and training division is overseen by vice president Henry Writer, who supervises the managers of the six local installation operations. Each of these local managers hires his or her own local service people. These service employees are trained by the home office under Henry Writer’s direction because of the uniqueness of the company’s products.

There is a small human resources department under the direction of Sally Fenton, a vice president who handles the employee paperwork, though hiring is actually performed by the separate departments. Teresa Totter is the vice president who heads the sales and marketing area; she oversees 10 well-trained salespeople.

The accounting and finance division of the company is headed by Ann Headman, who is the chief financial officer (CFO) and a company vice president; she is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and holds a certificate in management accounting. She has a small staff of accountants, including a controller and a treasurer, and a staff of accounting input operators who maintain the financial records.

A partial list of Waterways’ accounts and their balances for the month of November follows.

A list of accounts and their values are given above. From this information, prepare a cost of goods manufactured schedule, an income statement, and a partial balance sheet for Waterways Corporation for the month of November. (List Current Assets in order of liquidity.)

Topic:How does handwashing prevent intensive care unit patients in the hospital from nosocomial infection compare to usage of hand sanitizer to reduce the risk of infection in the first two weeks?

DIRECTION: Make a power point of this paper.

Course project

In recent years, attention to health care associated infections (HAIs) formerly referred to as nosocomial infections. The impact of infectious disease changes through time as microorganisms mutate, as human behavior patterns shift, or as therapeutic options change. HAND HYGIENE: The most frequent cause of infection outbreaks in health care institutions is transmission by the hands of healthcare workers. Hands should be washed or decontaminated frequently during patient care. When hands are visibly dirty or contaminated with biologic material from patient care, hands should be washed with soap and water. In this paper we will emphasize the effectiveness of hands hygiene compare to hands sanitizer.

PICOT

In intensive care units and other locations in which virulent or resistant organisms are likely to be present antimicrobial agents such as chlorhexidine gluconate, iodophors, chloroxylenol and triclosan may be used. Effective hand washing requires at least 15 seconds of vigorous scrubbing, with special attention to the area around nail beds and between fingers, where there is a high bacterial load. Hands should be thoroughly rinsed after washing. Because they are formulated with emollients, they are usually better tolerated than other agents, and because they can be used without sinks and towels. Hand washing or disinfection reduces the bacterial load and decreases the risk of transfer to other patients.

Hands Hygiene and hand sanitizer

When hands are not visibly soiled, health care providers are strongly encouraged to use alcohol-based waterless antiseptic agents for routine hand decontamination. These solutions are superior to soap or antimicrobial handwashing agents in their speed of action and effectiveness against microorganisms. Reduction in the infection rates and microbial counts on health care providers.Also, improvements in skin conditions of health care providers and reduction in infection rates. Other practices such as frequency and quality of hand hygiene reduces the risk of cross-contamination.

Integration of evidence

Direct observation of hand hygiene by health care providers is considered as the " golden standard" of measurement methods. Observation helps to allow which hand hygiene products are used, the thoroughness of cleansing, the tools and techniques used for drying, the use of gloves,and whether the staff are performing hand hygiene whenever there is an opportunity to do so. This method helps to give a feedback when improvement is needed. MEASURING PRODUCT USE: Measuring the amount of soap, alcohol-based hand rub and paper towels that health care workers used is an indirect way of estimating staff adherence to hand hygiene guidelines.

Implementation of methods

Effective hand washing requires at least 15 seconds of vigorous scrubbing, with special attention to the area around nail beds and between fingers, where there is a high bacterial load. Hands should be thoroughly rinsed after washing. If hands are not visibly soiled, health care providers are strongly encouraged to use alcohol-based waterless antiseptic agents for routine hand decontamination.

Conclusion

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) is a major safety concern for both health care providers and the patients. Considering morbidity, mortality, increased length of stay and the cost, efforts should be made to make the hospitals as safe as possible by preventing such infections.The best and most effective way to prevent is perfoming hands hygiene to avoid spreading diseases such as C.diff which is resistant to alcohol base hand sanitizers.

1.       Which statement(s) is (are) correct?

a.       The planning horizon for any business is between three and five years.

b.      Forecasts that extend beyond the planning horizon are less credible.

c.       The planning horizon should be the furthest point in the future considered by the business plan.

d.      The planning horizon for a hotel owner is determined by the length of the management contract.

2.       What statement would a hotel owner prefer to see in the business plan for a hotel destination spa, if he or she wants to evaluate whether the GM has the support of the management team?

a.       I have decided that we need to invest more money in the spa.

b.      These financial objectives for the spa are in line with those revealed to me privately by our closest competitors.

c.       The spa manager and head of rooms division have presented the following alternative scenarios for the development of the spa business following our recent brainstorming session.

d.      The future success of the spa business is probably not assured but it is not considered something we can do much about.

3.   What are the two missing items in this list of planning components for a hotel owning company? Historical data, Forecasting, Strategy , Management

a.       Statement of Source and Application of Funds

b.      Profit and Loss Account

c.       Benchmarking

d.      Experience

4.   What is the group of words missing from this statement about organizational planning?

One category of organizational planning is to ______ what may happen in the future, by using known facts, _______ and _________ to generate a ________ of future performance.

a.      Guess, Relationships, Assumptions, Forecast

b.      Predict, Relationships, Assumptions, Budget

c.       Predict, Relationships, Facts, Forecast

d.      Predict, Relationships, Assumptions, Forecast

5.   What is the group of words missing from this statement about organizational planning?

Another category of organizational planning is to ________ established theories on how the business ________, by looking at generally accepted _____ or current relationships between business processes and the ________ generated.

a.       Challenge, Operates, Past, Outcomes

b.      Disprove, Operates, Past, Outcomes

c.       Challenge, Operates, Past, Profits

d.      Challenge, Manages, Future, Outcomes

6.   What is the group of words missing from this statement about organizational planning?

A third category of organizational planning is to ________ and ______ a ______ business model. This type of planning allows ___________ to assess changes to the way the business operates.

a.       Broken, Innovate, Management, Repair

b.      Innovate, Renew, Established, Management

c.       Innovate, Grow, Established, Human Resources

d.     Maintain, Reinforce, Established, Management

7.   Which of these statements is unsuitable for inclusion in a business plan?

a.       We will make sure that we do things as well as the competition does in order to maintain our position in the market.

b.      We will focus our planning efforts on business process and not on the outcome.

c.       Too much emphasis on the outcome may cause short-term decision-making and the risk that strategy will be forgotten.

d.      The planning process must aim to make the business better than the competition.

8.   In order to establish a business planning strategy that can be aligned with budgets, managers need to (select the 4 statements that apply from the list below):

a.       Communicate how these actions relate to individual departments.

b.      Write a vision and mission statement

c.       Ensure that adequate resources are available.

d.      Get approval of the annual budget from shareholders

e.      Choose a course of action to meet these goals for a given business environment.

f.        Set realistic goals.

Managers encourage your team to take time off. “I’m going nowhere fast.” This was the concern one of my clients recently. Her complaint wasn’t about working in quarantine per se, but about her frantic pace and static productivity. With the initial adrenaline rush of the crisis passed, vast numbers of my clients are reporting that they and their teams feel exhausted to the point of being useless, work demands are on the rise, and the time saved commuting has been converted to meetings that creep earlier into the day and fill the space between dinner and (a too-late) bedtime. It’s not just our commute times that have been co-opted but also our vacations. With nowhere to go and much to adjust to, most people have cancelled not only their travel reservations but their time off as well.

However, while the number of hours worked is soaring, people’s capacity to focus and

produce quality work is diving. Several of my clients — executives and managers, along with

their human resource partners — are increasingly seeking guidance on how to unplug and

recharge and encourage their employees to do the same. Companies are offering a range of

wellness options but also vary in their policies about taking time off, from “we trust you, take

care of what you need to” to “take some of your allotted vacation time” to “we need all hands

on deck right now and we can figure out time off later.”

Research shows the benefits of vacations to employee productivity and the economy — both

of which are currently under threat. Unused vacations have cost U.S. businesses $224 billion

a year. Project: Time Off’s new study found that 95% of people surveyed claimed that using

their paid time off was very important. And yet for the first time in recorded history, more

than half of Americans (55%) left vacation days unused, which equates to 658 million unused

vacation days. Take a moment for that number to set in. Imagine the impact those vacations

could have on the U.S. economy — on airlines, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and towns —

not to mention the impact it would have on individuals’ stress levels.

Remember, this is paid time off that is not being used. Let us ask you two questions to make

this idea come alive: Would you do your job for free? And do you take all your vacation days? If you say no to the first, you had better say yes to the second.

In truth, if you are not taking all your time off, you’re not working more — you’re volunteering your time. This is our favorite conclusion from the study: “By giving up this time off, Americans are effectively volunteering hundreds of millions of days of free work for their employers, which results in $61.4 billion in forfeited benefits.”

Working from home doesn’t mean working all the time. Ease the numbness induced with

back-to-back video calls and a long to-do list by reinventing vacations and time off, and

encouraging your team to do the same. As Limeade’s CEO Henry Albrecht stated in my survey,“Share the rules, show care, model the behaviors, and trust people to do the right thing.”

Question 4:

4) Can we use ethics to make to make better managerial decisions? In reference to the article

above, discuss two potential ethical approaches that we can adopt to make better

managerial decisions

Scenario #4 When two plainclothes detectives arrived at Virginia Crawford?s suburban apartment at 6:30 on a Sunday morning to arrest her for murder, she was not surprised to see them. She cried when they insisted on putting her in handcuffs before transporting her to the jail in the county court building. Yet she had more or less expected to be arrested eventually. For almost a month, a police investigation had been conducted at Mercy Hospital, where Ms. Crawford worked as a nurse in the intensive-care unit (ICU). The entire hospital staff knew about the investigation, and Ms. Crawford herself had been questioned on three occasions by officers conducting the inquiry. At the time, her answers had seemed to be satisfactory to the police, and there was no hint that she was under suspicion. Still, she always believed that eventually they would catch up with her. The investigation centered on the deaths of four elderly patients during the period from February 1979 to March 1980. All of the patient were in ICU the times of their deaths. Each had been diagnosed as suffering from a terminal illness, and the chart notation on each case indicated that they had all suffered irreversible brain damage and were totally without higher-brain functions. The three women and one man were all unmarried and had no immediate family to take an interest in their welfare. All of them were being kept alive by respirators, and their deaths were caused directly by their respirators being turned off. In each instance of death, Ms. Crawford had been the person in charge of the ICU. After securing the services of an attorney, Ms. Crawford was released on bail, and a time was set for her appearance in court. Through her attorney, Marvin Washington, she made a statement to the media. ?My client has asked me to announce that she fully and freely admits that she was the one who turned off the respirators of the four patients in question at Mercy Hospital. She acted alone and without the knowledge of any other individual. She is prepared to take full responsibility for her actions.? Mr. Washington went on to say that he would request a jury trial for his client. ?I am sure,? he said, ?that no jury will convict Ms. Crawford of murder merely for turning off the life-support systems of people who were already dead.? When asked what he meant by that, Mr. Washing ton explained. ?These patients were no longer people,? he said. ?Sometime during the course of the treatment, their brains simply stopped functioning in a way that we associate with human life.? Ms. Crawford was present during the reading of her statement, and after a whispered conversation with her attorney, she spoke once for herself. ?I consider what I did an act of compassion and humanity,? she said. ?I feel no guilt about it. I did for four people what they would have wanted done, if they had only been in a condition to know.? Virgina Crawford was an ICU nurse and was arrested in connection with causing the deaths of several people by turning off their respirators. Those people were believed by nurse Crawford to be beyond cure and in an irreversible coma. Were her actions morally correct? How would someone respond to this question using the ethical principles of: (Respond using the principles of KANTIAN?

1- The basic sources of law are:
common law
statutory law
administrative law
all of the above

2- The body of principles evolving and expanding from judicial decisions arising during the trial of court cases is:
jursidiction
venue
documentary law
common law

3- The three branches of the federal government are the:
statutory, common and administrative
legislative, executive and judicial
public, private and hybrid
supreme, circuit and district

4- What is the main source of regulation affecting the health care industry?
DHHS
Medicare
Medicaid
HCFA

5- Which of the following are torts?
Administering the wrong medication
Administering medication to the wrong patient
All of the above
None of the above (these are only crimes)

6- The elements of negligence include:
Foreseeability, caution, long-term care, and harm.
Duty, breach, injury, and causation
Acceptance, assent, legality, and fraud
None of the above

7- The reasonable anticipation harm or injury is likely is:
Negligence
Damages
Foreseeability
All of the above

8- Intentional torts include:
Assault
Battery
False Imprisonment
All of the above

9- The improper restraint of a patient or detaining a person with a highly contagious disease, may lead to a tort claim of:

False Imprisonment
Restitution
All of the above
None of the above

10- A patient's insistence on leaving against medical advice should be:
ignored to prevent a violent confrontation
noted by the patient
noted on the medical record
all are proper responses

11-The two major defenses to a defamation action are:
time and effort
fraud and presentation
truth and privilege
all of the above

13- To prove fraud, one must show:
untrue statement made with intent to deceive
justifiable reliance
damages
all of the above

14-The legal theories of product liability include:
negligence
breach of warranty
strict liability
all of the above


15-An intravenous solution contaminated by the negligence of the product user, rather than the manufacturer, is an example of a:
intervening cause
product liability defense
all of the above
none of the above

16-Virtue ethics addresses difficult issues such as the nature of life, the nature of death, what sort of life is worth living, what constitutes murder, how we should treat people who are especially vulnerable, and the responsibilities that we have to other human beings.

True
False

17-Professional ethics are standards or codes of conduct established by the membership of a specific profession.

True
False

18-Compassion is a form of beneficence. People, often believing they know what is best for another, often make decisions they believe are in that person’s best interest.

True
False

19-Negative tolerance implies one will reluctantly put up with another’s beliefs. In other words, they simply tolerate the view of others.

True
False

20-Crimes are established by legislative bodies.

True
False

21- Medicare is a federally sponsored health insurance program for persons over 65 years of age and certain disabled persons.
True
False

22- Failure to conform to or a departure from a required duty of care owed to a patient is considered a breach of duty.

True
False

23- The plaintiff must establish a negligent act was newsworthy.

True
False

24-Public figures have more difficulty in pursuing defamation litigation than the average individual.

True
False

25- Slander is the intentional touching of another’s person in a socially impermissible manner, without that person’s consent.

True
False

26- A tort committed deliberately and based on the premise the defendant intended the harmful consequences of his or her behavior is cohesion.

True
False

A 19-year old marine was brought to the infirmary after passing out during basic training. He had repeatedly complained of severe weakness, dizziness, and sleepiness during the preceding 4 weeks of boot camp. In a previous episode 3 weeks earlier, he had drowsiness and generalized tiredness, and was brought to the infirmary, where after IV administration of saline, he was returned to duty with the diagnosis of dehydration. Upon questioning, he reported unquenchable thirst, and the repeated need to urinate. Although he ate all of his rations as well as whatever he could get from his fellow trainees, he had lost 19 pounds. (Baseline body weight was 150 pounds, height 5'8"). On the last day, he complained of vague abdominal pain, which was worse on the morning of admission. He had vomited once. During examination, he was oriented but tachypneic. He appeared pale, dehydrated with dry mucous membranes, and poor skin turgor. His respiratory rate was 36/minute with deep, laborious breathing; his heart rate was 138/minute regular, and his blood pressure was 90/60. His chest was clear, heart tones were normal. There was an ill-defined generalized abdominal tenderness, which was otherwise soft to palpation and showed no rebound. There was a generalized muscular hypotonia; his deep tendon reflexes were present but very weak. Laboratory, on admission, showed glucose of 560 mg/dl, sodium 154, potassium 6.5, pH 7.25, bicarbonate 10 mM/liter, chloride 90, BUN 38 mg/dl, creatinine 2.5 mg/dl. (Normal values: glucose, 70-114 mg/dl; Na = 136-146; K, 3.5-5.3; Cl, 98-108; CO², 20-32 [all in mM/l]; BUN, 7-22mg/dl; creatinine, 0.7-1.5 mg/dl). A urine sample was 4+ for glucose and had "large" acetone. HbA1c was 14% (n=4-6.2%). Serum acetone was 4+ undiluted, and still positive at the 4th dilution. Beta-Hydroxybutyrate level was 20 millimols/liter (normal=0.0-0.3 mM/l).

He was treated with insulin and saline I.V. By the 4th hour of treatment, potassium chloride was added to the IV at a rate of 15 mEq/hour. Sixteen hours later, he was active, alert, well hydrated and cheerful, indicating he felt extremely well. He requested that his IV be discontinued. His physician decided to switch his insulin to subcutaneous injections and to start a liquid diet. He was later put on a diabetes maintenance diet and treated with one injection of Human Lente insulin in the morning. Although his blood sugars the next morning were 100-140 mg/dl, he had frequent episodes of hypoglycemia during the day, and his HbA1c was 9%. Eventually, he was put on 3 injections of regular insulin/day, and a bedtime intermediate duration (Lente) insulin.

Questions

1.Why did the patient improve after being given IV saline in his first admission?  

2. Why was dyspnea his presenting symptom?  

3. He was hyperkalemic on admission, and yet, why was potassium later added to the IV infusion?  

4. What is the possible reason why a single injection of insulin in the morning failed to control his diabetes without causing hypoglycemia?   

I need 7-8 sentences responding to each paragraph written by my peers. Please make sure each paragraph is error/grammar free. Please separate each paragraph written by number 1 and 2. Thanks, Chegg

1.In general, when we want to use statistical methods to help us make inferences, we will first put forward hypotheses based on the results and hope that we can use limited data to verify our hypotheses and hypothesis testing are a way to test the statistical hypothesis.

In our life hypothesis test is a very useful method and scholars use it very often to predict the data assumption is correct or not. The effectiveness of sleeping pills is a very good example of a statement in hypothesis tests. We could do the hypothesis test through sleeping in normal conditions and tracking the time and quality of sleep for one week, and doing the same action while taking sleeping pills. Under this condition, we can perform the same activities before sleep in order to control the data like watch the film or news in the evening, and avoid some exhausting work which will deplete human energy very quickly. This will help us to gain a stable data.

What we need is to set up two datasets, one is sleeping with sleeping pills, the other is without pills. Within these 14 days, We can get an average of both. The null hypothesis would be "taking pills will not affect the time and quality of sleep". In this statistic data, we will obtain the difference in the averages. If the p-value from the data is lower than the significance level 0.05, we can reject this null hypothesis and make a statement that has been proven that sleeping pills do make you sleep longer.

2.I would like to conduct a hypothesis test regarding how much time on average I can win a game of "Civ 6," a strategy game on my PC on level 6 vs. level 7. This is an ideal space for experimentation because of the quick completion times and because of the ease of cost. I would take a measurement of historical times needed to win on level 6 difficulty which may average about 90 minutes on a standard map with 5 other players with 14 city states. The null hypothesis or H0 is that level 7 is so simple to strategize level 7 on average will take only 90 minutes to complete, the same.

The resource bonuses to AI do not materially affect gameplay because of late introduction. The alternative hypothesis or H_a is that level 7 in fact is much more difficult and that the mean time of completion is greater than 90 minutes at the 95% confidence interval. I would conduct these experiments by playing 30 level 7 games over the course of 10 weeks with 3 games played per week. The test would end after 10 weeks. No games of level 6 need to be played because we have saved historical records. The obstacles I would encounter would include frozen computer screens/restarts and outliers in the difficulty because of terrain such as starting on an island. This can increase the time needed by over an hour. I would also need a code of ethics because if the average level 7 time starts to grow I can simply expand the sample size to get the desired result. The hard limit must be a sample size of 30.

Biology Unit II Homework - Cancer and Genetics

Introduction

In order for organisms to grow, repair, maintain, and reproduce, cells undergo cell division. Sometimes, cells uncontrollably divide, resulting in cancer. In the first part of the Cancer and Cell Division Lab, you will learn about normal cell division and will compare it to cell division that occurs in cancer cells. You will then visit a website to find out more information about cancer. You will learn why it occurs, why it kills, and new treatments that are being tested and used to treat cancer.

Objectives

Explain the process of cancer, the effects on the human body, the various types, and the risk factors involved.

Explain various treatments for cancer.

Explain the various stages of mitosis.

Materials

No extra materials will be required to complete this lab other than internet service.

Directions

Go to the following website: http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_23/BL_23.html

Follow the steps under the PROCEDURE section.

Type all answers directly on the data sheet.

Select Save As, and save this document using your last name and student ID as the file name.

Upload the data sheet as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf file when you are finished.

While viewing the video, answer the following questions. Total: 8 points

Centrioles are duplicated during which stage of mitosis? (4 points)

During which stage of mitosis are sister chromatids pulled to opposite ends of the cell? (4 points)

After viewing the video, click on the Information tab in the bottom right corner. Answer the following questions. Total: 12 points

In which of the cancer types listed, are males not at risk of developing? (4 points)

Cigarette smoke is a major risk factor for which type of cancer listed? (2 points)

The risk for which type of cancer increases after the age of 55? (4 points)

Continue following the directions under the PROCEDURE section, and complete the following table. Total: 40 points

Continue following the directions under the PROCEDURES section and answer the following questions. Total: 12 points

Based on your data and observations, what are some of the differences between normal cells and cancer cells? (4 points)

Which type of cancer shows the most aggressive growth? Explain your answer. (4 points)

When studying cell division in tissue samples, scientists often calculate a mitotic index, which is the ratio of dividing cells to the total number of cells in the sample. Scientists often calculate the mitotic index to compare the growth rates of different types of tissue. Which type of tissue would have a higher mitotic index, normal tissue or cancerous tissue? Explain. (4 points)

Go to: http://www.cancer.org/

Click Cancer A-Z. At the page that follows there will be links to more information on breast cancer, colon and rectal cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer and skin cancer. Review the information for each these cancers. Next, write an essay that discusses either your own risk factors for each type of cancer and steps you might take to decrease those risk factors. As always, you do not have to disclose any actual personal information if you do not wish to. You may create a fictional character and discuss his or her risk factors instead. (30 points)

Your response should be at least 100 words in length.

Section C: Case study analysis (40%)

Read the case provided below and answer the questions.

Managers encourage your team to take time off. “I’m going nowhere fast.” This was the concern one of my clients recently. Her complaint wasn’t about working in quarantine per se, but about her frantic pace and static productivity. With the initial adrenaline rush of the crisis passed, vast numbers of my clients are reporting that they and their teams feel exhausted to the point of being useless, work demands are on the rise, and the time saved commuting has been converted to meetings that creep earlier into the day and fill the space between dinner and (a too-late) bedtime. It’s not just our commute times that have been co-opted but also our vacations. With nowhere to go and much to adjust to, most people have cancelled not only their travel reservations but their time off as well.

However, while the number of hours worked is soaring, people’s capacity to focus and

produce quality work is diving. Several of my clients — executives and managers, along with

their human resource partners — are increasingly seeking guidance on how to unplug and

recharge and encourage their employees to do the same. Companies are offering a range of

wellness options but also vary in their policies about taking time off, from “we trust you, take

care of what you need to” to “take some of your allotted vacation time” to “we need all hands

on deck right now and we can figure out time off later.”

Research shows the benefits of vacations to employee productivity and the economy — both

of which are currently under threat. Unused vacations have cost U.S. businesses $224 billion

a year. Project: Time Off’s new study found that 95% of people surveyed claimed that using

their paid time off was very important. And yet for the first time in recorded history, more

than half of Americans (55%) left vacation days unused, which equates to 658 million unused

vacation days. Take a moment for that number to set in. Imagine the impact those vacations

could have on the U.S. economy — on airlines, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and towns —

not to mention the impact it would have on individuals’ stress levels.

Remember, this is paid time off that is not being used. Let us ask you two questions to make

this idea come alive: Would you do your job for free? And do you take all your vacation days? If you say no to the first, you had better say yes to the second.

In truth, if you are not taking all your time off, you’re not working more — you’re volunteering your time. This is our favorite conclusion from the study: “By giving up this time off, Americans are effectively volunteering hundreds of millions of days of free work for their employers, which results in $61.4 billion in forfeited benefits.”

Working from home doesn’t mean working all the time. Ease the numbness induced with

back-to-back video calls and a long to-do list by reinventing vacations and time off, and

encouraging your team to do the same. As Limeade’s CEO Henry Albrecht stated in my survey,“Share the rules, show care, model the behaviors, and trust people to do the right thing.”

Question :

Identify two key stakeholders in the above article. What impact could the issue have on

them?