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Media Highlight: Dalhousie professor provides insight on maintaining employee productivity during the summer

Posted by Communications and Marketing on July 17, 2017 in Media Highlights

Although seasonal workers make the bulk of their money during the summer, professionals and top-tier managers tend to work hard right through the fair-weather summer months, many other employees tend to, well, go into summer mode. And it costs companies money.

Dr. Eddy Ng, a professor of organizational behaviour and the F.C. Manning chair in economics and business at Dalhousie University, says a more lackadaisical attitude at this time of year can cut employee productivity by as much as 10 per cent.

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