January 19, 2010
The 'Chances Are Calculator' allows people to work out how many of their colleagues are carrying a sexually transmitted disease, drinks too much alcohol or is suffering from depression.
Guru has just inputted his workplace data on age and gender and found two people have chlamydia, 41 are carrying herpes, 12 will experience erectile dysfunction, 11 are suffering from depression, eight are pre-diabetic and one unlucky sod will have a stroke.
The calculator, says Lloydspharmacy, has been "designed to stimulate debate and make heath risks more relevant by applying nationally representative data to the workplace". All it means is that Guru will now look at his colleagues with greater suspicion wondering which has a STD. Definitely the receptionist for starters...
If you work in HR, why not try it using your workforce data? Then you can shock your MD with horrific stats about what percentage of his staff are disease ridden drunks who are likely to be on long-term sick. Undoubtedly, that will improve his view of them.

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