Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy
Employers are key stakeholders in creating a healthy future of work and must recognize their role in contributing to workforce and population health.
Intro
Recent research has provided new insights into the quantitative association between workforce well-being and business performance outcomes across a broad array of industries. Effective linkages between employee-level data and individual-or workgroup-attributable business outcomes have the potential to provide a basis for strategic business planning, recognizing the workforce as an organizational asset –and identifying workforce health and well-being interventions that can favorably impact business outcomes and employee health.
The Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy project aims to develop and implement a data-driven workforce health and well-being decision-making framework that identifies and addresses social determinants of health. With this approach, a culture of health, including Total Worker Health for all employees, can be more meaningfully realized –with the goal of linking workforce health and well-being to business performance measures.
Description
Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy project is collaborating with a healthcare system on this study. The healthcare system employs 13,000 individuals. The project will address benefits design, wage structure, and well-being programs that can significantly improve health outcomes for workers – and measurably enhance business performance.
The project team will work with both leadership and workers to develop novel workforce health and well-being interventions using the project’s Workforce Health and Well-Being Decision-Making Framework.