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A review by mjmullady
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It by Jeffrey Pfeffer
3.0
This book spends most of its time being extremely honest and somewhat depressing. But it’s also not a ton of new information. At least if you really either work or pay attention to the working world.
The book does a good job of focusing on the fact that employee health and organizations unhealthy practices are a global problem and not only related to the US. Some how not surprising that China is a clear country of concern as well.
The bright lights used as examples are also sadly a small and consistent t list of company names that most likely we’ve read about before as well. This speaks to the battle we all face when trying to battle toxic work environments and our own approach to staying healthy.
The biggest and obvious issue and the book talks to this but also offers very general fixes is the fact that especially in the US helping to solve this issue requires organizational focus beyond profits, or I should say how employee health (mental and physical) actually is something that could improve a company’s position rather than just an operational number to manage via layoffs and cost cutting.
Second is governmental policy which means realizing how harmful employer focused health insurance is as the main source for people and how work hours and basic income impact everything. Sadly not sure I have a ton of faith this will change in the short/medium term.
Merged review:
This book spends most of its time being extremely honest and somewhat depressing. But it’s also not a ton of new information. At least if you really either work or pay attention to the working world.
The book does a good job of focusing on the fact that employee health and organizations unhealthy practices are a global problem and not only related to the US. Some how not surprising that China is a clear country of concern as well.
The bright lights used as examples are also sadly a small and consistent t list of company names that most likely we’ve read about before as well. This speaks to the battle we all face when trying to battle toxic work environments and our own approach to staying healthy.
The biggest and obvious issue and the book talks to this but also offers very general fixes is the fact that especially in the US helping to solve this issue requires organizational focus beyond profits, or I should say how employee health (mental and physical) actually is something that could improve a company’s position rather than just an operational number to manage via layoffs and cost cutting.
Second is governmental policy which means realizing how harmful employer focused health insurance is as the main source for people and how work hours and basic income impact everything. Sadly not sure I have a ton of faith this will change in the short/medium term.
The book does a good job of focusing on the fact that employee health and organizations unhealthy practices are a global problem and not only related to the US. Some how not surprising that China is a clear country of concern as well.
The bright lights used as examples are also sadly a small and consistent t list of company names that most likely we’ve read about before as well. This speaks to the battle we all face when trying to battle toxic work environments and our own approach to staying healthy.
The biggest and obvious issue and the book talks to this but also offers very general fixes is the fact that especially in the US helping to solve this issue requires organizational focus beyond profits, or I should say how employee health (mental and physical) actually is something that could improve a company’s position rather than just an operational number to manage via layoffs and cost cutting.
Second is governmental policy which means realizing how harmful employer focused health insurance is as the main source for people and how work hours and basic income impact everything. Sadly not sure I have a ton of faith this will change in the short/medium term.
Merged review:
This book spends most of its time being extremely honest and somewhat depressing. But it’s also not a ton of new information. At least if you really either work or pay attention to the working world.
The book does a good job of focusing on the fact that employee health and organizations unhealthy practices are a global problem and not only related to the US. Some how not surprising that China is a clear country of concern as well.
The bright lights used as examples are also sadly a small and consistent t list of company names that most likely we’ve read about before as well. This speaks to the battle we all face when trying to battle toxic work environments and our own approach to staying healthy.
The biggest and obvious issue and the book talks to this but also offers very general fixes is the fact that especially in the US helping to solve this issue requires organizational focus beyond profits, or I should say how employee health (mental and physical) actually is something that could improve a company’s position rather than just an operational number to manage via layoffs and cost cutting.
Second is governmental policy which means realizing how harmful employer focused health insurance is as the main source for people and how work hours and basic income impact everything. Sadly not sure I have a ton of faith this will change in the short/medium term.