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The Healthy Workplace Nudge: How Healthy People, Culture, and Buildings Lead to High Performance
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:
Well-being leads to health and high performance Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health 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.
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:
Well-being leads to health and high performance Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health 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.
- GenresNonfiction
320 pages, ebook
Published April 11, 2018
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About the author
Rex Miller
7 books10 followersREX MILLER is the principal and thought leader for MindShift, a future-focused consultancy and organizational performance firm. He is the author of The Commercial Real Estate Revolution, The Millennium Matrix: Reclaiming the Past, Reframing the Future of the Church, and Change Your Space, Change Your Culture, all from Wiley.https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
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May 15, 2018
The premise: Better workspace design can "nudge" employees' behavior, ultimately improving the health and productivity of teams.
The lesson:
A good workspace encourages three activities: the ability to move, focus, and connect with others.
Move is the most common pain point—sitting all day isn't good for anyone's physical or mental health. Height-adjustable tables are a good starting point, but think how you can get people to move around within the office, like by moving storage into a shared location. If your building has stairs, make sure they're easy to access so people are less tempted to take the elevator.
Focus is essential for deep work—people need to escape distraction, but they also need to take breaks. Whenever possible, create spaces with outside views and respite areas so that people can re-charge. And re-arrange furniture to make the space easier to navigate, including more visual "landmarks" and fewer interactions. (Who hasn't been lost in cubicle maze?)
Connect addresses people's social needs and encourages collaboration. Create smaller, informal meeting spaces that people can duck into when they want to work with colleagues without distracting others, and identify common areas for socialization. You can also foster team spirit by decorating teams' areas in distinct ways.
The relevant takeaway for you: You and your team spend 40+ hours a week in an office, so take a moment to evaluate how your environment is affecting your productivity. You can start small—establish team norms, like wearing headphones, that mean "do not disturb;" designate one office or area for collaboration; or invite your teams to personalize their shared space to reflect the team's accomplishments.
The lesson:
A good workspace encourages three activities: the ability to move, focus, and connect with others.
Move is the most common pain point—sitting all day isn't good for anyone's physical or mental health. Height-adjustable tables are a good starting point, but think how you can get people to move around within the office, like by moving storage into a shared location. If your building has stairs, make sure they're easy to access so people are less tempted to take the elevator.
Focus is essential for deep work—people need to escape distraction, but they also need to take breaks. Whenever possible, create spaces with outside views and respite areas so that people can re-charge. And re-arrange furniture to make the space easier to navigate, including more visual "landmarks" and fewer interactions. (Who hasn't been lost in cubicle maze?)
Connect addresses people's social needs and encourages collaboration. Create smaller, informal meeting spaces that people can duck into when they want to work with colleagues without distracting others, and identify common areas for socialization. You can also foster team spirit by decorating teams' areas in distinct ways.
The relevant takeaway for you: You and your team spend 40+ hours a week in an office, so take a moment to evaluate how your environment is affecting your productivity. You can start small—establish team norms, like wearing headphones, that mean "do not disturb;" designate one office or area for collaboration; or invite your teams to personalize their shared space to reflect the team's accomplishments.
December 7, 2023
Pre Covid. Strong focus away from changing the individual and instead focusing on the environment and system. Unfortunately some of the examples of best practices still focus on individuals changing outcomes that are not entirely in their control. Still, there were lots of great examples of how to make buildings and work environments healthier and promote healthy behaviors.
November 23, 2022
I believe everybody should read this book. It opened my eyes to so much, on human habits and lifestyles we take on because of the built environment and work systems companies have laid out without contemplating and realizing the long term effects.
September 18, 2022
Lots of post-its, lots of tabs.
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