Leveraging healthy workplaces as a strategic benefit

A healthy workplace is an underappreciated strategic benefit. The physical and behavioral attributes of the work environment affect employee engagement and well-being, personnel-related costs and organizations’ ability to attract and retain high-quality talent. The combining of healthy work- place elements into a coherent, internally consistent and integrated operating environment creates working conditions that enable employees to thrive. We describe the characteristics of a healthy workplace and advo- cate for investing in key facility and organizational changes — changes that can strengthen the brand as the employer of choice.