The Healthy Workplace Nudge: How Healthy People, Cultures, and Buildings Lead to High Performance
- 4h 45m
- Michael O'Neill, Phillip Williams, Rex Miller
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2018
Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profits
Organizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. Every indicator projects these costs will double before 2030. This is an unsustainable path. These costs are the tip to an even bigger iceberg, the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in five fresh ways:
1.Well-being leads to health and high performance
2. Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs
3. Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior
4. Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health
5. Leaders who develop healthy cultures achieve sustainable high performance and employee wellbeing
In addition to proving highly effective, these approaches represent a fraction of the cost sunk into traditional wellness and engagement programs. The book explains how to create a workplace that is good for people, releases them to what they do best and enjoy most, and produces great and profitable work.
- Find actionable strategies and tactics you can put into use today
- Retain happy, productive talent
- Cut unnecessary spending and boost your bottom line
- Benefit from real-world research and proven practice
If you’re a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resource professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is one book you’ll want to have on hand.
In this Book
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Foreword
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Introduction—The Elephant Whisperer
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A Slow-Moving Storm—The Existential Threat to Business and the Economy
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The Rainbow in the Storm—Medical Science Meets Building Science
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Storm Damage—The Cost of Forgetting
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Stress—Portrait of a Killer
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In Search of Wholeness
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Why Happiness before Health
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Where's the Data?—Inconvenient Truths
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The Mystery of Hospitality—Experiencing the Human Touch
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Nudge Thinking—How Small Things Lead to Big Results
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The Healthy Building Nudge—The Invisible Power of the Workplace
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The Financial Nudge—The Return on Humans (ROH)
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Becoming Your Best Self—Rest, Engagement, Boundaries, and Deep Work
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How They Did It—Creating Ecosystems of Care
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Courageous Leaders and a Culture of Care
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The MeTEOR Story—Extreme Ownership
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Starting a Movement—How Second-Chair Leadership Can Change a Company
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Haven in a Heartless World—The Promise of a Good Workplace
