Is Drug Screening Too Costly To Do Or Do Without? One Company Has The Answer!
The director of telemarketing operations at a financial services company looks out across his 3600 square foot call center on a typical Monday morning. Look at all those empty chairs, he laments. It is sickly Monday and my partiers are taking their usual unscheduled day long break. The problem of the three day weekend or absenteeism in general doesnt just affect the manager in this setting. What about the other 80% of the work force who showed up? They are now burdened with additional duties while filling the vacancies that have temporarily developed.
With the challenge of recruiting qualified workers becoming more difficult all over the nation, the last thing American businesses can afford is to have major portions of its existing work force abusing drugs on or off the job. The truth is that most employees do not engage in illicit drug use and most do not want to work side-by-side with drug abusers. A majority of employees are parents who are concerned about the effects of drug abuse on their children, now and in the future. Given this profile of the typical American workers, it is...