Holistic Workplace Wellness

Evidence from a host of recent studies suggests that employers can get more bang out of their wellness bucks by encouraging exercise rather than weight loss. To help employers make more scientifically informed and effective wellness decisions, this post reviews three of the main reasons for encouraging physical activity over weight loss.

Recent findings indicate that leadership burnout is on the rise. This has the potential to have detrimental effects on the organizations they lead. To help organizations combat leadership burnout, this post describes its common causes and provides six steps that organizations can take to combat it.

This post highlights the ways in which maladaptive norms of communication can create productivity sinkholes and discusses examples of productivity interventions that optimize communicatory habits in the workplace.

Many studies have found correlations between companies with workplace wellness programs and marketplace performance. Whether this correlation is evidence of causation is contested. This post examines the discussion and considers some alternative measures of the efficacy of wellness programs.

Pet-friendly workplace policies are good for employee wellness and result in several positive organizational outcomes. This post contains eight tips for maximizing the wellness-boosting and organization-optimizing effects of pet-friendly workplaces.

Despite their popularity, open-plan offices (OPOs) have several downsides. Not only can they stifle innovation, but they can also be emotionally taxing. This post describes the psychological toll that OPOs can take on employees and explains how re-imagining the purpose of the office as a space for collaboration can help employers persuade remote-only workers to come back into the office.

Chronic work-related stress has depleted employees’ energy reserves along with their ability to feel positively towards their workplaces. As a result, they are unhappy and underperforming. To help employers fix this problem, this post describes six of the most common causes of workplace burnout and provides suggestions for how to address them.