The Healthy Office Revolution: A true story of burnout a wake up call & better working through science - Softcover

Why are offices so often bad for our health?What’s the reason so many of us burn out?How can we become more healthy at work?These questions are fundamental to the future of offices and how organizations attract the best people to work in them. But they’re all too often ignored. Inspired by her own experience, researcher Elizabeth Nelson set out to find answers, and to offer a manifesto for a healthy office revolution.Written with author and mindfulness coach David Holzer, The Healthy Office Revolution begins with the gripping story of how Elizabeth’s dream job turned into a burnout nightmare. Elizabeth’s experience went onto inspire her groundbreaking research into how the office ecosystem impacts on an organization’s bottom line.When it comes to attracting and keeping the best people, offices are becoming more important than ever before. Telling her own compelling story, and offering a blueprint for change grounded in leading edge scientific research, Elizabeth shows how offices can be transformed for good.

Elizabeth Nelson is a researcher, writer, and speaker who explores the connection between human behavior and technology. Her groundbreaking research and doctoral dissertation on employee health and her own story of burnout inspired the book The Healthy Office Revolution. An American by birth, she lives with her family in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Learn Adapt Build (LAB), the company she co-founded is a rapidly growing business transformation consultancy. David Holzer is the author and writer of 20 books. He is also a business writer, blogger, and journalist. As a writing coach and mentor, David teaches the principles of yoga for writers. His online yoga for writers course is possibly the first of its kind in the world. Born in the UK, David has lived in Spain for many years.