Fat Chance Revisited.

Then again an earlier item may help explain why NGOs want to have British bosses volunteer their services.
See Work Until You Drop
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Look at this article from Management Issues:

Britain's family doctors have blamed employers for failing to take responsibility for the health and well being of their staff as new figures reveal a dramatic rise in the number of people needing to be signed off work with illness.

With the bill for poor health and absenteeism costing UK businesses some £13 billion a year, doctors predict that this figure is set to soar unless employers take urgent action to help workers manage their health.

According to the Norwich Union Healthcare's Health of the Workplace report, a third of family doctors have noticed a sharp increase in the number of people needing to be signed off work with illness for seven days or more.

Doctors have a clear view on where the responsibility for this lies. Nine out of ten believe that firms don't do enough to prevent workers falling ill, while the same proportion blame companies for failing those staff who are ill and not doing enough to help them back to work.

I suppose it's bad enough to have all the illnesses that already exist in the developing countries why not add to the misery of everyone there and bring in senior management that can help make things worse.

It can only be good for business!

The costs of people being driven past their limits will drop in the UK, health care costs will go down, and meanwhile the health care costs of the people in the countries which have been silly enough to take on the services of the new 'consultants' they have been provided with will see their costs go up.

And who benefits? Why everyone of course. The companies they have left behind will experience increased sales of all of their products - overseas to countries where the consultants have been busy. This will provide greater employment opportunities back home for the "idle lay abouts" that are often mentioned in the UK press who do nothing all day but collect their dole cheques (actually people who have been 'downsized' by the very bosses we are talking about, people who have been sacked as a result of their bosses trying to improve productivity dividends) and of course decrease the stress on existing employees by bringing in labour that will be willing to work at the new low wages that enable the companies to 'compete' with overseas pressures.

Sorry, I need to get some sleep - it seems that I am experiencing a nightmare when I am awake!

Maybe the only place to get some relief is in the land of Nod!

(I wonder whether we can introduce a new form of tourism - "travel while you sleep!" a sort of virtual tour where everything still seems to be the way the brochures describe it.)