"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. These are direct costs, but the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover far exceed the direct costs. 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 four fresh ways: happiness leads to health and performance, behavioral economics to nudge healthy employee behavior, healthy culture, healthy buildings. 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 youll want to have on hand."-- "This book explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in four fresh ways"-- Provided by publisher. Provided by publisher.

Introduction: The Elephant Whisperer Part 1, Slow Moving Storm: A History of Warnings and Apathy. A Slow-Moving Storm: The Existential Threat to Business and The Economy ; The Rainbow in the Storm: Medical Science Meets Building Science ; Storm Damage: The Cost of Forgetting ; Stress: Portrait of a Killer -- Part 2, Is There Shelter From the Storm? A Search for Wellness. In Search of Wholeness ; Why Happiness Before Health ; Where's the Data? Inconvenient Truths ; The Mystery of Hospitality: Experiencing the Human Touch -- Part 3, Magical Nudges: The Road To Health and Wellbeing ; Nudge Thinking: How Small Things Lead to Big Results ; The Healthy Building Nudge: The Invisible Power of The Workplace ; The Financial Nudge: The Return on Humans (ROH) ; Becoming Your Best Self: Rest, Engagement, Boundaries and Deep Work -- Part 4, Haven in a Heartless World: The Need for Safe Places. How They Did it: Creating Ecosystems of Care ; Courageous Leaders and a Culture of Care ; The MeTEOR Story: Extreme Ownership ; Starting a Movement: How Second-Chair Leadership Can Change a Company ; Haven in a Heartless World: The Promise of a Good Workplace.