Heigh Ho — Work and Wellbeing
di Bob Merberg
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Gritty, factual storytelling that makes sense of work and working life.
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- Employee Engagement SOS? · 5 minIs employee engagement a sinking ship? According to Gallup, engagement is taking on water, with the firm’s frequently repeated survey findings showing an engagement rate of 31% —…
- Understanding Evidence-Based Practice for Employee Wellness Leaders · 14 min “How do we do an evidence-based wellness program when there is no evidence?” This was a question asked of me by a distinguished wellness director. She also happened to be a…
- Let Your People Go... to the bathroom (podcast version) · 7 minA conversation (AI-assisted) about an employee wellbeing topic a lot of people never think about: Delaying bathroom use because of lack of scheduling flexibility, lack of access…
- Joseph Zito — Hero of the Triangle Factory Fire · 4 minA quick, AI-assisted conversation describing the heroic actions of Joseph Zito, hero of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. This episode is based on Bob Merberg’s web page, The…
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire · 13 minToday’s AI-assisted conversation is based on my post, "A Nation that Catches Workers Before They Fall," about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which was an inflection point…
- Health Circles: An Organizational Solution to Improve Work and Health · 11 min"Organizational solutions" are gaining traction in conversations about employee wellbeing. Organizational solutions entail changing how work is done. Enjoy this AI-assisted…
- Mental Health Stigma · 11 minThis AI-assisted conversation takes a deep dive into Bob Merberg’s excerpted presentation, given to a group of employees around the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, about mental…
- Designing Jobs People Want to Do · 14 minChange the work, not the worker. This lively AI-assisted conversation takes a deep dive into the basics of job characteristics, motivating job potential, job design, and job…
- Teen Worker Wellbeing · 8 minThis experimental AI-assisted two-person conversation is based on the Heigh Ho article, Teenage Workland: Taking stock of teenage worker wellbeing (in words, numbers, and music)…
- Civility Policy Lands Coffee Chain in Hot Water · 9 minSomething different: This episode is a conversation that dives deep into a mash-up of two Heigh Ho articles... When Civility Policies Run Amok-accino and Ambiguous Civility…
- A San Francisco Bus Driver Navigates the Ups and Downs of Transit Operation · 49 min(Subscribe to the Heigh Ho newsletter at heighho.substack.com.) Get a look from "the seat" as Muni driver Mc Allen describes why he loves his job and San Francisco and public…
- Steering Thru Stress: What Bus Drivers' Working Lives Teach Us About Wellbeing · 12 minThe job stress of city transit operators, especially bus drivers, has probably been studied more than any other occupation. Along with other jobs in the transportation industry…
- Back to the Salt Mine: Labor Where You Least Expect It · 7 minGazing out over Lake Erie from the Cleveland waterfront, you’re likely to see commercial and recreational watercraft. You’ll see white-capped waves and, in winter, some ice…
- How Work Expands to Fill the Time Available to Complete It · 10 minIn 1955 British naval historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson published in The Economist an article about bloated government bureaucracies, stating: “Work expands so as to fill the…
- Interview with a Truck Driver · 13 minYou'll have a new world opened for you as you listen to comments by Dustin — a Texas-based long-haul driver — about pay, work schedules, and life on the road. Dustin also shares…
- Job Crafting, with Rob Baker · 42 minRob Baker, author of Personalization at Work, and Bob Merberg explore job crafting, where a worker tailors their job-related tasks, relationships, and thoughts to optimize how it…
- Really? Workers Gladly Forgo Wages? · 9 minHave you noticed business media banging the drum about workers’ willingness to accept less pay in exchange for certain benefits? The business world’s insistence that satisfying…
- Unpaid Domestic Work and Invisible Family Load (Mental Load) — with Nikki Reynolds · 28 minYou’re invited to eavesdrop as Nikki Reynolds of Inspired Wellbeing Solutions and I have a no-holds-barred conversation about unpaid domestic work — which includes tasks like…
- Unpaid Domestic Work and Invisible Family Load · 11 minUnpaid domestic labor, also called unpaid work, is time and energy expended within a household or family for the benefit of its members. It places disproportionate burden on…
- Dishing on Meaningful Work, Finding Your Passion, and Loving Your Job · 10 minI asked dishwashers in an online forum… “What's your reaction when you hear people talk about doing what you love, finding meaning in your work, following your passion?” Listen…
