When it comes to what you wear every day, most people don’t consider the connection between what they are wearing and the people who made their clothes. Who touched them? How many people? What country do they live in? These are questions that Kimberly Almeida, senior program manager for the Levi Strauss Foundation, asks herself every morning when she gets dressed. And it’s what she asked the audience to do…
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Health pervades all facets of business. It is pivotal to business strategy and operations, and it is material to long-term profitability. Companies across all sectors make an imprint on health in four ways: through the safety and integrity of products and services; through workplace culture and its influence on employee health risks, health outcomes, and performance; through the impact of operations on communities; and through the impact of operations on…
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Eileen McNeely makes the case for investing in well-being. Read the Article.
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…
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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…
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