Heigh Ho — Work and Wellbeing
Bob Merberg
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Employee Engagement SOS?
Is employee engagement a sinking ship?According to Gallup, engagement is taking on water, with the firm’s frequently repeated survey findings showing an engagement rate of 31% — a 10-year low. But a…
Understanding Evidence-Based Practice for Employee Wellness Leaders
“How do we do an evidence-based wellness program when there is no evidence?”This was a question asked of me by a distinguished wellness director. She also happened to be a physician who understood…
Let Your People Go... to the bathroom (podcast version)
A conversation (AI-assisted) about an employee wellbeing topic a lot of people never think about: Delaying bathroom use because of lack of scheduling flexibility, lack of access, or excessive job…
Joseph Zito — Hero of the Triangle Factory Fire
A quick, AI-assisted conversation describing the heroic actions of Joseph Zito, hero of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.This episode is based on Bob Merberg’s web page, The Story of Joseph…
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Today’s AI-assisted conversation is based on my post, "A Nation that Catches Workers Before They Fall," about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which was an inflection point in the arc of…
Health Circles: An Organizational Solution to Improve Work and Health
"Organizational solutions" are gaining traction in conversations about employee wellbeing. Organizational solutions entail changing how work is done. Enjoy this AI-assisted conversation about one…
Mental Health Stigma
This AI-assisted conversation takes a deep dive into Bob Merberg’s excerpted presentation, given to a group of employees around the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, about mental health…
Designing Jobs People Want to Do
Change the work, not the worker.This lively AI-assisted conversation takes a deep dive into the basics of job characteristics, motivating job potential, job design, and job crafting. It’s based on a…
Teen Worker Wellbeing
This experimental AI-assisted two-person conversation is based on the Heigh Ho article, Teenage Workland: Taking stock of teenage worker wellbeing (in words, numbers, and music), which includes the…
Civility Policy Lands Coffee Chain in Hot Water
Something different: This episode is a conversation that dives deep into a mash-up of two Heigh Ho articles...When Civility Policies Run Amok-accinoandAmbiguous Civility Policy Burns WorkersThe…
A San Francisco Bus Driver Navigates the Ups and Downs of Transit Operation
(Subscribe to the Heigh Ho newsletter at heighho.substack.com.)Get a look from "the seat" as Muni driver Mc Allen describes why he loves his job and San Francisco and public transportation in…
Steering Thru Stress: What Bus Drivers' Working Lives Teach Us About Wellbeing
The job stress of city transit operators, especially bus drivers, has probably been studied more than any other occupation. Along with other jobs in the transportation industry, bus driving is often…
Back to the Salt Mine: Labor Where You Least Expect It
Gazing out over Lake Erie from the Cleveland waterfront, you’re likely to see commercial and recreational watercraft. You’ll see white-capped waves and, in winter, some ice floes. But you may be in…
How Work Expands to Fill the Time Available to Complete It
In 1955 British naval historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson published in The Economist an article about bloated government bureaucracies, stating:“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its…
Interview with a Truck Driver
You'll have a new world opened for you as you listen to comments by Dustin — a Texas-based long-haul driver — about pay, work schedules, and life on the road.Dustin also shares his perspective on…
Job Crafting, with Rob Baker
Rob Baker, author of Personalization at Work, and Bob Merberg explore job crafting, where a worker tailors their job-related tasks, relationships, and thoughts to optimize how it fits to their…
Really? Workers Gladly Forgo Wages?
Have you noticed business media banging the drum about workers’ willingness to accept less pay in exchange for certain benefits?The business world’s insistence that satisfying jobs can only come at a…
Unpaid Domestic Work and Invisible Family Load (Mental Load) — with Nikki Reynolds
You’re invited to eavesdrop as Nikki Reynolds of Inspired Wellbeing Solutions and I have a no-holds-barred conversation about unpaid domestic work — which includes tasks like caretaking, cooking,…
Unpaid Domestic Work and Invisible Family Load
Unpaid domestic labor, also called unpaid work, is time and energy expended within a household or family for the benefit of its members. It places disproportionate burden on women, with implications…
Dishing on Meaningful Work, Finding Your Passion, and Loving Your Job
I asked dishwashers in an online forum…“What's your reaction when you hear people talk about doing what you love, finding meaning in your work, following your passion?”Listen to their answers, which…
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