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Dear Folks,

Last week I introduced you to the Mckinsey Quarterly. Now it’s time to let you know about one of the latest articles have appeared on: Building the Civilized Workplace.

Do you feel harassed at work?, anyone insults you?, do you receive rude interruptions from colleagues?, or hidden agendas are the main subject in coffee breaks?. Then your employers are facing higher costs than they think!!!, from high turnover, to lower productivity and motivation, and no comments about possible legal actions. No-jerks policy: something to think about!.

Regards,

F Marco-Serrano

Sometimes not that little, we can find them when analysing an investment, trying to sum up the figures, or pricing an item; they are the hidden costs. For cost accountants they will be those little enemies the technical department can be misinforming about, or just forgetting, like for example forgotten processes not accounted for or unweighted ones. However, even worse than them are the bigger enemies: the opportunity costs!.

“Opportunity Costs”, I can remember, was the first lesson I had in faculty (well, in fact the first lesson was what “Economics” was, but that doesn’t count as a lesson!). Summarising: they are the best alternative use of the resources you’re going to employ in the analysed whatever. So, for example, if you are pricing a product, your opportunity cost is the best price you could get by producing other most valuable product (i.e. you’re producing butter and you could be producing cheese). So what?, take it into account, because the introduction of this variable into the analysis can make a difference; moreover, be careful, because real life, brick and mortar, is not pen and paper. Be aware!.

The adverse effects of sleep deprivation are very well known by the military which have been studying the matter for so many years. Its effects on learning ability, memory, health, growth, origin of depression, and so on, are nowadays proven.
What’s the matter related with OR?: loads of applications. However, I’m only mentioning one today: lack of productivity at work!!!. Sleep, sleep, sleep, and well!.

More info on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation

PS. Not surprinsingly foes, it is considered the worst torture, even taking the subject to death!.

Check this out: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/ .

In that site you can find dozens of products made with caffeine. In this example you could think this is just for "weirdos" (geeks!, right!) but who has never been evolved with a caffeine addiction problem?. Liers!!!.
We think caffeine increases our superpowers, that transforms us in super working machines. I’m not a specialist but I think the "become-da-supa-worker" isn’t right at all.

However, forever and ever, better addicted to Caffeine than… .

Suit yourself!.