Social interaction
Mindsets and beliefs
Stress
Economic security
Chronically elevated levels of stress can seriously affect one’s health. Optimal levels of stress, however, can help contribute to better performance. Employers should ensure that workers are challenged but not overwhelmed.
Economic opportunity is a predictor of overall physical and mental health. Employers can help reduce feelings of financial insecurity by ensuring that worker compensation covers basic needs.
Positive work experiences contribute to good holistic health. Employers can foster meaning and belonging by engaging employees through compelling storytelling and ensuring a connection to the company’s mission.
Feeling connected at work is linked to greater innovation, engagement, and quality of work—but toxic work environments mitigate these benefits. Employers can help through interventions that counter toxic behavior.
Productive activity (such as volunteering and spending time on hobbies) can contribute to a person’s self-efficacy, which can boost productivity. Employers can connect people in their communities with more productive activity.
Productive activity
Six drivers of workplace health that employers can influence
Social interaction Feeling connected at work is linked to greater innovation, engagement, and quality of work—but toxic work environments mitigate these benefits. Employers can help through interventions that counter toxic behavior.
Mindsets and beliefs Positive work experiences contribute to good holistic health. Employers can foster meaning and belonging by engaging employees through compelling storytelling and ensuring a connection to the company’s mission.
Productive activity Productive activity (such as volunteering and spending time on hobbies) can contribute to a person’s self-efficacy, which can boost productivity. Employers can connect people in their communities with more productive activity.
Stress Chronically elevated levels of stress can seriously affect one’s health. Optimal levels of stress, however, can help contribute to better performance. Employers should ensure that workers are challenged but not overwhelmed.
Economic security Economic opportunity is a predictor of overall physical and mental health. Employers can help reduce feelings of financial insecurity by ensuring that worker compensation covers basic needs.
Sleep Poor sleep can greatly affect employee health and workplace outcomes and can cost companies considerably. Employers can help by monitoring after-hours work and creating incentives for employees who prioritize getting enough sleep.
Social interaction
Mindsets and beliefs
Productive activity
Stress
Economic security
Sleep
Poor sleep can greatly affect employee health and workplace outcomes and can cost companies considerably. Employers can help by monitoring after-hours work and creating incentives for employees who prioritize getting enough sleep.
Sleep
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Six drivers of workplace health that employers can influence