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Here's What Office Workers Need to Get Healthier

Here's What Office Workers Need to Get Healthier

FromGame Plan


Here's What Office Workers Need to Get Healthier

FromGame Plan

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Apr 11, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

From smoking-cessation programs to step challenges, companies do all sorts of things to push employees toward getting healthy. Why? Sick workers are expensive. If companies can create healthier workforces, they save tons of money on health insurance costs. These efforts have helped spawn a $6 billion dollar corporate wellness industry, but they aren't really working. People don't care enough to participate, and many wellness initiatives don't have a good return on investment, studies have found.

Is there a better way to stay healthy at work? Joanna Frank, the founding executive director of the Center for Active Design, joins Game Plan to talk about a growing movement to create workspaces that quietly manipulate workers into healthier behaviors. Sign us up!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Apr 11, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (81)

You spend more time at your job than just about anywhere else. Game Plan, a weekly show hosted by Bloomberg reporter Rebecca Greenfield and editor Francesca Levy, takes a close look at the way we live our lives at work. Greenfield and Levy dive into everything from how we started speaking in office jargon to the strategic value of being nice to your colleagues. It turns out that there’s a lot more to say about the office grind than you may have realized.