by Richard Safeer, MD | Oct 24, 2022 | blog
$500 billion. That’s the cost of poor health and neglected well-being of American employees. That’s more than the combined revenue of Apple and Microsoft in 2020. An unwell workforce contributes to medical and pharmacy claims, lost productivity, workers’...
by Richard Safeer, MD | Oct 24, 2022 | blog
The “healthiest” employer in the city. That’s commonly the issue title of city-based magazines. It serves to highlight corporate citizens; sometimes even when they are not healthy. The conclusions might be based on easily identifiable metrics including wellness...
by Richard Safeer, MD | Nov 9, 2021 | blog
What if the key to employee wellness lies in a simple smile? Have you ever found yourself the recipient of a great big smile? Of course you have! What did you do? Naturally, you smiled back. The Science of Smiling It turns out that a simple smile can be...
by Richard Safeer, MD | Nov 2, 2021 | blog
What I didn’t expect on my path to becoming a doctor and entering the workforce was how much my job would impact my sleep–specifically, how much of my insomnia would be related to something my boss said or did or didn’t say or do. My wellbeing journey has been a...
by Richard Safeer, MD | Oct 25, 2021 | blog
In all the discussion about the lingering effects of COVID-19, one sidelined issue has been the toll it has taken on the wellbeing of employees. In a Harvard Business Review survey, 85 percent of the respondents stated that their general wellbeing had declined since...