Submitted by Armen Hareyan on May 27th, 2008
Could ADHD test be the next requirement fo employment interviews as ADHD can cost adults up to 20 lost workdays per year?
The researchers are looking around right now for an employer to volunteer, but the funny thing about this study is that the high rate of ADHD in the Netherlands improved performance.
For the sake of productivity, not better health, someone thinks the ADHD and work relationship should be addressed as mental disorders cost the US at least 193 billion a year. Maybe a little better training and help with information overload might accomplish the same thing.
People do tune out when it becomes too much and that is not ADHD. Is this considered part of the problem?
Here is what Yahoo News reports on ADHD and Jobs. "More recently, it has been recognized as continuing into adulthood for some people, and new research seeks to estimate the effect of ADHD on workers.
"This lack of ability to concentrate costs the average adult sufferer 22.1 days of "role performance," per year, including 8.7 extra days absent, according to researchers led by Dr. Ron de Graaf of the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction.
"It might be cost-effective for employers to screen workers for ADHD and provide treatment, the researchers suggest. Kessler said he had worked with workers suffering depression and found that treatment costing $1,000 could help prevent $4,000 in lost productivity. The new research estimated the U.S. rate at 4.5 percent among workers, costing an average of 28.3 days performance."
Source:
Barbara Duck - The Medical Quack 
Comments
#1 What
I just have to ask... "What the Hell?"
I have ADD fairly bad and the thought that I now might be singled out and told to take medicines.... it is sickening. You can't force people to take drugs. That's endorsement of private industry. That's corruption.
People with ADD are different. So, we are less productive...what do you expect? That's kind of implied. Now we have a price tag to go with that. It's getting more serious I think.
This is financial fanaticism... productivity at any cost. Employers having all the rights... and we, for sheer accident of being DIFFERENT get to be bossed around by the ensuing laws and inquiries.
Great. Just great.