This is a very compelling, scientific, snd informative book on the subject of workplace wellbeing. It provides lots of data ina form of graphs to illustrate its points. Practically, mamagers can get insights from those graphs if they want to present something about enoloyee satisfaction and how it affects the bottom line.

The book sounds academic which makes it different from books leaning towards general readers. Managers will greatly benefit from this evidence based approach.

Wellbeing comes from one place, and one place only — a positive culture.

As per this book, Workplace wellbeing has three components - Evaluative, Affective and eudaimonic. which makes you think about questions like - what do you think about your job ? is the work enjoyable everyday ? what is the sense of purpose you get our of your work ?

A workplace where people care for each other by being interested in each other and maintain responsibility for colleagues as friends amplifies their creativity and ability to think creatively. it also provides buffer against negative events like stress and improves employees ability to bounce back from challenges and difficulties. it also make the employees loyal and brings best out of them.

Although there’s an assumption that stress and pressure push employees to perform more, better, and faster, what such cutthroat organizations fail to recognize is the hidden costs incurred like - stress related health issues, unloyal employees and While a cut-throat environment and a culture of fear can ensure engagement for some time but the inevitable stress it creates will likely lead to disengagement over the long term.

In summary, a positive workplace is more successful over time because it increases positive emotions and well-being. This, in turn, improves people’s relationships with each other and amplifies their abilities and their creativity. It buffers against negative experiences such as stress, thus improving employees’ ability to bounce back from challenges and difficulties while bolstering their health

This is a really nice book to understand and address workplace stress. it might help to make a stress free personal life as well.

As an HR professional specializing in Workplace Wellbing, I highly enjoyed this book and the insight it gave. The pandemic changed the way we work and behave but it didn't change how we need to connect with others both in and out of the Workplace.

This was a very interesting book! I especially appreciated the data in every chapter and supporting each and every argument. Would definitely recommend this to my workplace's library.

As one would expect from a Harvard Business Review Press publication, this is an academic book: lots of studies, charts, and interaction with bibliography. Workplace wellness and wellbeing has been a hot topic for the last decade, and can and should be increasingly discussed by C-Suite officers in the coming decades. As the authors point out, executives and managers often think, “If workers are unhappy, it’s not our fault,” or managers think that they can’t really do much to improve things if there is some level of unhappiness. But the authors rightly point out that wellbeing (in the workplace) is due to a variety of factors, some of which indeed can be influenced by employers. This book is a worthwhile read since managers often assume, as noted above, we can’t do very much. A manager might say, “give me more funding and I can help my workers experience more joy and fulfillment in their work, but there’s no money so we can’t do anything.” Or we assume that improving wellbeing is simple: as an example, just pass the responsibility on to HR or the C-Suite to institute a new inservice on DEI, or add a benefit to the compensation package. But a lot of wellbeing in the workplace is counter-intuitive, and this book covers the contexts and drivers for a lot of what has a deeper and more lasting effect. Numerous related topics are covered, such as the relation of profitability to wellbeing, or the increase of robots, AI, and technology in general. For what this book is meant to be, an academic study, it’s excellent. Just don’t look for a lot of human stories, or illustrations of specific things companies have done that have resulted in increased wellbeing.