White-collar jobs are just as stressful as blue-collar jobs. Long work hours and work-life balance, to name a few are toxic to employees and destroys their health physically and emotionally.

In this episode, we talk about the book - Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance and What We Can Do About It with Anna Meiners.

Learn about the infuriating truth about modern work-life balance, the systematic impact of the workplace on employees’ health and on how managers, employers, HRs and anyone who works can create a healthier and better workplace.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• How employer decisions in the workplace actually affect human health
• The impact of working long hours
• Busyness as a status symbol
• Why people prefer to stay in harmful work environments
• What employers can do to really make the shift from a toxic work environment to a healthy and better one

Resources Mentioned:

• Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance and What We Can Do About It by Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Brené Brown
• Brené Brown: The Call to Courage
• Cascade Centers

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