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Article on Improving Employee Well-Being Published by Harvard Business Review

“7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being,” a new article by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and three colleagues from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was published this week on the website of Harvard Business Review.

The article was written by: Kelly, who is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan as well as Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER); Lisa Berkman, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School; Laura Kubzansky, the Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard Chan School, and Meg Lovejoy, Research Program Director of the Work and Well-being Initiative at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard Chan School .

“7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being” offers Harvard Business Review readers research-based recommendations about designing work to foster worker health and well-being. It draws on concepts and a framework presented in a new, free Work Design for Health online toolkit for employers that was created by the four article authors, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“It doesn’t have to be costly to redesign work to improve employees’ well-being,” Kelly, Berkman, Kubzansky, and Lovejoy write in “7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being.” “In fact, it can often be a good investment.”

Read the HBR.org article