Work is not working

I have the pleasure of working with John Ryan on writing a book about a healthy place to work. A super cool concept John Ryan developed after he met Jeffrey Pfeffer, the author of “Dying for a paycheck”. So I picked up the book. Below is a quick and dirty review.

The statistics are horrific

• The American Institute of Stress maintains that job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually.
• 50% of people have changed jobs to escape the stress
• The number of people killed in work-related violence while at the workplace is “more than were killed by fires and explosions, getting caught in equipment or machinery and exposure to harmful substances combined.”
• More people have heart attacks on Monday morning than at other times during the week, maybe because they are back at work after the weekend.
• The more than one hundred UK business schools do not teach on health, employee engagement, and well-being in any of their courses.
• Only 12% of employees strongly agree that they have substantially higher overall well-being because of their employer.
• 88% of all people in this country feel they work for an organisation that does not care about them.
• The job quality in most European countries has progressively…