Erin Kelly, a Work and Well-Being Initiative core member, contributes a key point to the work and well-being conversation: workplace wellness programs are not the only or best solution to the problem of worker stress. “Wellness programs can often feel like we are blaming the worker — when it is the workplace and the way that work is organized today that is actually the source of the problem,” she shares...Read more about The Washington Post: "Bosses should fix toxic workplaces, surgeon general says. Here’s how."
The U.S. Surgeon General has released a framework featuring five essentials that employers can focus on to help create workplaces that are “engines of well-being.” The foundation of the Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being is based on the following five essentials: protection from harm; connection and community; work-life harmony; mattering at work...
The roundtable gathered national experts (researchers and policymakers) to develop an agenda for an upcoming Surgeon General's workplace and well-being advisory.