Burnout can affect anyone, but it's particularly common in high-pressure work environments. If this sounds like a common problem in your organization, here's something to consider: giving your team space to focus on their physical, mental, and spiritual well-being can have profound effects.
The reasons to act go beyond improving health. Employee disengagement and attrition—more common among workers with lower well-being—could cost a median-size S&P company between $228 million and $355 million a year in lost productivity, write McKinsey's Jacqueline Brassey, Barbara Jeffery, and Drew Ungerman in a McKinsey Health Institute survey.
Read the insights below to learn how employees and organizations can follow a “complementary approach” to enhance employee well-being, innovation, and job performance.
Reframing employee health: Moving beyond burnout to holistic health
In search of self and something bigger: A spiritual health exploration
How to turn everyday stress into ‘optimal stress’
Author Talks: How minor stresses add up to epic fails
Beyond burnout: What helps—and what doesn’t
Aging with purpose: Why meaningful engagement with society matters