Are you ready to reopen?
As employers look to reopen and bring team members back to the office, if only on a part-time basis, it’s important to realize they...
Health Performance Indicators
Allen and Macomber recommend that businesses begin tracking Health Performance Indicators (HPIs) as a means of measuring their building’s performance in terms of indoor...
The bottom line of healthier buildings
Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John D. Macomber says the book he co-authored with Harvard Assistant Professor Joseph G. Allen is aimed at making...
Minimizing Risk in the Workplace
Using a hierarchy of controls as a response framework, companies can take a range of actions — weighing the effectiveness and financial impact of each — to combat...
How healthy is your office?
Sports teams from the professional level to high school invest significant sums of money in their facilities to obtain peak productivity from their athletes....
Leading through a crisis: 5 factors for success
Even faced with a pandemic, leaders can motivate teams by being transparent and by encouraging positive change. Here are five critical factors that leaders...
Corporate perks for Fido
Millennials are the country’s largest pet-owning demographic, overtaking Baby Boomers in 2017. The shift to working from home has caused many previous petless households...
Is monitoring software helpful or ‘Big Brother’?
Since entire workforces have moved to remote offices, some companies have implemented various software programs that closely track employee productivity and time spent on...
Burnout is also spreading
“COVID-19 is taking a toll on our minds and emotions in a million little ways,” says Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) President and...
The stress of home life invades work
It’s important to remember that your workers are more than the jobs they perform. Employers need to be aware that it’s not just the...
