Building a healthy workplace: 5 steps to worker well-being 

Building a healthy workplace: 5 steps to worker well-being 

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'Healthy employees have fewer health care expenses, are more productive, and have lower rates of absenteeism and turnover.'





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Experts from MIT and Harvard have developed a new toolkit to promote employee well-being.

It treats poor well-being as symptom of an unhealthy work environment.

The toolkit offers actionable steps and resources for managers.



Improving worker health and well-being has traditionally been viewed as the responsibility of the employee, particularly when it comes to adapting to workplace stressors.

But a new employer toolkit from MIT Sloan and Harvard University researchers looks beyond the incentivized group yoga sessions and promotional gym discounts, and