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How CVS-Aetna and SHINE are Building a Healthier Workforce

Join SHINE Director, Eileen McNeely, and Vice President of Well-being at CVS Health, Kay Mooney, at the HeroForum19: Thriving Organizations conference in Portland, Oregon September 10-12, 2019.  Here’s a description of the session titled How CVS-Aetna and Harvard Faculty are Building a Healthier Workforce: We are facing unprecedented levels of obesity, chronic disease and stress due to a massive biological-cultural mismatch that we have collectively created in the U.S. and globally. Employers are feeling…

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SHINE Director Presents New Paper at ILO’s 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference on Work and Well-being

SHINE Director, Dr. Eileen McNeely, presented a new paper titled “The Things that Matter Most at Work for Flourishing in Life: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Well-being in Apparel Supply Chain Workers” at ILO’s 6th Regulating for Decent Work conference on Work and Well-being in the 21st Century. Tamar Koosed and Carlued Leon of Manaus Consulting, as well as, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Research Associate at SHINE contributed to the paper. The research team surveyed…

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SHINE Director Presents New Paper at ILO’s 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference on Work and Well-being

SHINE Director, Dr. Eileen McNeely, presented a new paper titled “The Things that Matter Most at Work for Flourishing in Life: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Well-being in Apparel Supply Chain Workers” at ILO’s 6th Regulating for Decent Work conference on Work and Well-being in the 21st Century.   Tamar Koosed and Carlued Leon of Manaus Consulting, as well as, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Research Associate at SHINE contributed to the paper. The research…

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New Paper on Human Flourishing in Cross-Cultural Settings

A new paper published by SHINE researchers investigates human flourishing in five culturally distinct populations. In this study we present two measures of human flourishing with psychometric support for their application to culturally distinct populations. Comparisons were made between states of human flourishing in Cambodia, China, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and United States. Although both measures have been shown to have satisfactory psychometic properties in the working adults population in the US…

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New Paper on Worker Well-being Taking Evidence from the Apparel Industry in Mexico

This paper aimed to identify drivers for worker well-being (such as job satisfaction, worker engagement, and self-assessed work performance) among Mexican apparel factory workers and their association with work outcomes, controlling for demographic, socioeconomic, and job-related variables. The researchers hypothesized that job resources and resources in life (which can be provided by employers) contribute to work outcomes and worker well-being, and that the influence of job or life resources on…

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Vogue Business | 6 ways blockchain is changing luxury

Originally published in Vogue Business.  Blockchain is one of the fastest-growing sectors in tech, and the fashion industry is taking note.  Investment in blockchain startups has increased at a compound annual growth rate of 90 per cent over the past five years, according to Nathan Pacer, co-founder and chief research officer of research firm Venture Scanner. “At its core, blockchain is all about proof of exclusivity and anti-counterfeiting — areas that…

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BenefitsPro | Redefining the future of workplace well-being

There’s a clear business case for helping employees get healthy, but it’s more than that—it’s simply the right thing to do. We’re facing unprecedented levels of poor health—from obesity and chronic health conditions to loneliness, which poses a significant health risk equal to that of smoking. And employers are feeling the impact. According to the Centers for Disease Control, absenteeism related to chronic conditions like obesity, smoking and physical inactivity was associated with annual…

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Harvard Gazette | A Program to Give Workplace Well-being a Boost

What good is a sustainable environment if it leaves people unhappy, unhealthy, and broke? As the calls for sustainability practices grew louder in recent years, Eileen McNeely thought the conversations were ignoring that important point. Too close a focus on the environment — and on the starvation, disease, and heat stroke that climate change is expected to inflict — and you miss the idea that humans might actually flourish in…

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Announcing SHINE’s Executive Leadership Well-being Survey

SHINE’s research focuses on the health and well-being of the workplace.  While our research up to date has been mostly around the workforce – from office employees to  factory workers and the supply chain – we are adding a new cohort, CEOs and senior management. As noted by Dr. Eileen McNeely, while Harvard and others have conducted significant research on workplace well-being, the focus has been on employee well-being and little…

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LS&Co Unzipped | A New Way to Measure Worker Well-being

Levi Strauss & Co.’s Worker Well-being (WWB) program aims to improve the lives of those who make our products around the world. To date, it has reached nearly 200,000 workers globally with factory-based programs that seek to address issues related to health, financial security and gender equality. The program operates on the premise that when workers are content, healthy and engaged, factory productivity will increase.As part of the initial launch,…

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