By Paul Landsbergis, Donald Goldmacher & Peter Schnall In a recent conversation, HWC team members, Paul Landsbergis, Donald Goldmacher and Peter Schnall weighed in on the complex factors - including work - that may be giving rise to falling life expectancy in the...
Healthy Work as “Stress Management”: ISMA-Brazil 2023
I recently returned from a very long, but worthwhile, journey to Porto Alegre, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I was invited to present by Ana Maria Rossi, President of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA), Brazil, in a two-day...
Women, Work and Stress in a Hybrid World
As we celebrated mothers this Mother’s Day, we realize how important healthy work is to working mothers (the majority of mothers worldwide). When we think about healthy work, we must also think about gender equity, and other inequalities in the labor market including...
Launch of the Healthy Work Survey for Organizations
This week the Healthy Work Campaign is proud to announce that the online Healthy Work Survey (HWS) for organizations, including special content for Employers and for Unions/Worker Advocates, is now available at our website, www.healthywork.org. The HWS project has...
Translating the COVID-19 Successes of the Oakland Teachers Union to Work Organization and Occupational Stress.
By David LeGrande, Healthy Work Campaign - Labor Outreach Coordinator-Strategist In 2020, the Oakland, California teachers' union successfully negotiated rigorous COVID-19 protections in 100 schools throughout the City of Oakland. Their success, the product of an...
Remote Work or Return to the Office?
The Healthy Work Campaign published a new Medium article recently, "Remote Work or Return to the Office? It depends." exploring the enormous transition that many workers made to "remote work" during the pandemic. Up until June there appeared to be some movement from...
Obstacles to Healthy Work
This is the first of a number of blogs detailing the numerous obstacles in the U.S. to creating healthy workplaces that in turn promote healthy work.Today the New York Times published an article by Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura (@kimidefreytas) titled "A Hospital Finds an...
“Work, Health, Stress” A Collaboration between CSE and Suramericana, Colombia
The CSE has been invited by Sebastián Segura (PRAX) and Viviola Gómez (Professor, the Stress and Health Research Group of the Universidad de los Andes) to collaborate with Suramericana — a large Colombian occupational health insurance company that provides workplace...
WHO/ILO: Long work hours contribute to deaths worldwide
Long working hours are increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke — a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) — documents that long working hours (>55 hours a week) contributed to 745,000 deaths in...
Efforts to Reduce COVID-19-related Work Stressors
The Healthy Work Campaign recently posted a series of Healthy Work Strategies case studies by our research associate Paul Landsbergis and graduate student researchers at SUNY Downstate, about the various efforts groups have made to reduce the significant stress...