According to Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, workplace stress — the result of conditions like long hours, a lack of health insurance, little autonomy on the job, high job demands — don’t just hit productivity or damage morale. They’re killing us.
Pfeffer’s new book is built around a 2015 paper that said more than 120,000 deaths a year and roughly 5 to 8 percent of annual health care costs may be attributable to how U.S. companies manage their workforces.
“It’s pretty clear that the human costs — in terms of death — and the economic costs, in terms of elevated health care spend, are quite substantial,” Pfeffer said in a recent interview about his new book, “Dying for a Paycheck.”
Read the article at The Washington Post.