Workplace substance-abusing activities are not common. Over the years employers have to face serious issues in terms of billions of dollars annually on the name of rehabilitation or medical insurance purposes of the employees. The study published recently describes that there are confounding results about the trending of illegal use of drugs by the employees at the workplace. Employees are reportedly using alcohol, marijuana, and many other illegal drugs at business premises. The use of drugs at the workplace causes serious troubles for business firms and owners such as tardiness, absenteeism, and decreases productivity, high rate of errors in work and brutal accidents. It is also dangerous because it may cause irrational behavior of employees, fights, and arguments with co-workers and makes employers pay for millions of dollars for medical insurance and they have to pay to prevent litigations action by the employees.
In U.S employers have to pay 100 billion dollars annually for medical incentives to the employees especially addicted to illicit drugs. Apart from the monetary losses to business owners they have to suffer plenty of other problems. Let’s take a look at all the details related to workplace drug abuse menaces in an infographic.
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