Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California (Dr Singer, Dr Vilendrer, Ms Joseph); Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (Dr Singer, Dr Pfeffer); Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Mr Kim).
Address correspondence to: Sara J. Singer MBA, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1265 Welch Road, Medical School Office Building, Room 328, Stanford, CA 94305 ([email protected]).
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
The Institutional Review Board at Stanford University approved this research. Respondents were informed of their rights as human subjects through written consent prior to commencing interviews.
Clinical significance: Improving population health requires different employer behaviors, more education about links between the workplace environment, employee wellbeing, and profitability; greater investor pressure prioritizing health; selecting executives who value health; and systematic measurement of health outcomes. Government action to ensure no competitive disadvantage from pursuing employee health may be necessary.
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