Health and productivity in the workplace
Health and productivity in the workplace. Productivity Puzzles Season 1, Episode 10 was released on Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Are healthy workers are more productive? Then why do companies still struggle to focus on health and well-being?
In this episode, host Bart van Ark is joined by Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Alliance Manchester Business School. Sir Cary is a world leading expert on workers’ health and well-being. He is also President of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development in the UK. Together, they discuss the impact of the Covid pandemic on health and productivity in the workplace. They also touch on the challenges of new ways of working and why the health and well-being of a workforce should be a more central business imperative.
For more information:
- The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future – Future of Work by Stephen Bevan and Cary L. Cooper is available in all good bookstores.
- Watch Cary debate the virtues and vices of working from home with Professor Diane Coyle at our business conference in Can hybrid work improve workers’ well-being and productivity?
