Boston.com | Companies Push to Make Employee Health Information Public

Soon, large companies like IBM, PepsiCo, and Johnson & Johnson could make employee health information public knowledge. Several global employers joined forces with nonprofit health advocacy groups this week to push for businesses to publish health information (like the stress levels and body mass indexes) of their employees. The goal, they say, is to provide investors, directors, and other stakeholders with valuable information about the overall wellness of a company’s workforce. Derek Yach, chief…

Huff Post | ReWork: Rethinking Work and Well-being

To be “a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit.” That’s not something we normally associate with the business world, but that’s the purpose of a group called The B Team, a nonprofit founded in 2012 by Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz, with the mission “to catalyse a better way of doing business for the well-being of people and the planet.” Normally, being assigned to the “B” team isn’t…