“CEOs are the cause of a healthcare crisis”

Jeffrey Pfeffer, in his book Dying for a Paycheck, has an interesting hypothesis. He says that due to a lack of consideration for workplace health, through the disappearance of health insurance as an employee ‘perk’, the psychological effects of long hours and the work-family conflict, “we are harming both company performance and individual well-being.”

This view is backed up by Bob Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller Companies and author of Everybody Matters, who in his speech to 1000 CEOs at the ScaleUp Summit in San Antonio, California, stated that “you…