Ep159 - Inside Medibank's Healthiest Workplace Index with Sasha D'Arcy

About this episode

Tom Bosna interviews Sasha D'Arcy about the Healthiest Workplace Index and its implications for workplace health and leadership.

What actually makes a workplace ‘healthy’? In this episode, Tom sits down with Sasha D’Arcy (Medibank) to go inside the Healthiest Workplace Index — and what the data is revealing about work right now. In this episode: What the Healthiest Workplace Index measures and why Medibank built it The biggest drivers of workplace health (and what’s getting in the way) The critical role of leaders in shaping wellbeing What organisations are learning from experiments like the 4-day work week Why wellbeing works best when programs, leadership and job design align Key insight As Sasha puts it: You can’t solve workplace stress without understanding what’s driving it. The Index helps organisations move beyond surface-level metrics and focus on the factors that actually influence how people experience work. What stood out Health-oriented leadership behaviour has one of the strongest impacts on employee health has one of the strongest impacts on employee health Flexibility and initiatives like the 4-day work week only work when supported by how work is designed Recovery (not just productivity) is a critical and often a lever for wellbeing Connect with Sasha D’Arcy on LinkedIn…

People in this episode

Host: Tom Bosna

Guest: Sasha D'Arcy

Topics covered

• workplace health
• Healthiest Workplace Index
• leadership and wellbeing
• 4-day work week
• employee health
• work design

Keywords

• workplace health
• Healthiest Workplace Index
• employee wellbeing
• leadership
• 4-day work week
• work design
• workplace stress

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Medibank, Health at Work Research Unit, Macquarie University, AFR BOSS

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