Healthy Work

In Episode 71 we are joined by Dr. Lacie Barber who talks about her recently published paper ( Barber, Leslie, & Samaniego, 2024 ). We go deep on the concept of telepressure and strategies for individuals, managers, and organizations to address it. You can find Dr. Barber on her website and you can keep up with her lab’s work here . Barber, L.K., Leslie, S. & Samaniego, A. Workplace Telepressure a...

In Episode 70 we are joined by Dr. Danni Gardner who talks about her recently published paper ( Gardner & Ryan, 2024 ). We chat about her findings lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who feel that their workplace is not welcoming to queer people are less likely to come out at work, and therefore more likely to establish and maintain strong boundaries between work and home lives. This gives some data...

In Episode 69 we are joined by Dr. Alice Brawley Newlin who talks about her recently published paper ( Brawley Newlin, 2023 ). We chat about her findings that depending on how you measure it well well over half of gig workers are financially dependent upon their gig work, especially men and those that are married. You can find Dr. Alice Brawley Newlin at her website This is a public episode. If yo...

In Episode 68 we are joined by Dr. Ji Woon Ryu who talks about her recently published paper ( Ryu et al., 2023 ). We chat about their findings that perceived mistreatment at work results in worse outcomes for Black employees than White employees, including costing up to 100 minutes of sleep! You can find Dr. Ryu at her website (https://www.jiwoonryu.com/). This is a public episode. If you would li...

In Episode 67 we are joined by Dr. Gordon Sayre who talks about his recently published paper ( Sayre & Conroy, 2023 ). We chat about their review of all of the literature linking work pay and health and wellbeing. In addition to identifying four key features of pay that can impact wellbeing, we answer the question “does money make you happy?”. You can find Gordon here . This is a public episode. I...

In Episode 66 we are joined by Dr. Malissa Clark who talked about her recently published book, Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business--and How to Fix It . We chat about what workaholism is (and isn’t), the biggest myth about workaholism, what to do about workaholism, and the experience of getting to chat personally with people experiencing workaholism. Dr. Clark can be fo...

In Episode 65 we are joined by Dr. Elisabeth Stelson who talked about a recent paper (Stelson, Dash, McCorkell, Wilson, Assaf, Re’em, and Wei) that examined what it’s like to have long COVID and try to return to the workplace. So many important and powerful themes came up, but I was most struck by the fact that not only do we have a moral imperative to create systems and structures to support work...

In Episode 64 we are joined by Dr. Zachary Mercurio who talked about a recent paper (Mercurio, Myles, Adams, & Clifton, 2023) that examined what it is that leaders do to help followers find their work meaningful. They created a really useful scale that workers and leaders alike can use to assess themselves or their leaders on six key groups of behaviors. Find Zack Mercurio here (https://www.zachme...

In Episode 63 we start the new year off with the awesome Dr. Ussama Khan who talked about a recent paper (Khan, Patel & Barnes, 2023) that examined the impact of air quality on leader’s behaviors. They found that subordinates working in other cities rated leaders as more abusive and disengaged on days when the leader reported worse air quality! You can find Dr. Khan here . If you’re in the US, you...

In Episode 62 we are fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Christopher Wiese who talked about a recent paper (Wiese, Li, Tang, & Brown, 2023) that examined how different aspects of your commute impact your work and wellbeing. The quality of your commute, not the length of the commute, is what really predicts outcomes! You can find Dr. Wiese here and on the website formerly known as twitter here Thi...

In Episode 61 we are fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Mindy Shoss who talked about a recent paper (Shoss et al., 2023) that examined how different aspects of precarious employment determined whether people came to work sick (or sent their kids to childcare) with COVID or COVID-like symptoms at the height of the pandemic. Feelings of powerlessness and concerns about job security were key predic...

In episode 60, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Drake Van Egdom. He talked about a recent paper (Van Egdom et al., 2023) that explored the interaction of both mothers’ and fathers’ parental leave on mothers’ return to work, separation anxiety, and breastfeeding. Parental leave for both parents had key impacts! You can find Dr. Van Egdom here and on the website formerly known as Twitter...

In episode 59, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Rebecca Brossoit. She talked about a recent paper (Brossoit et al., 2023) that explored the impacts of a broad workplace intervention targeting supervisor support and sleep training on sleep and workplace safety. They found that the intervention improved safety largely through improved sleep quality! You can find Dr. Brossoit here . You ca...

In episode 58, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Katrina Burch. She talked about a recent paper (Rollins & Burch, 2023) examining the impact of work interference with school on college student alcohol consumption. They found that for students who believed alcohol will relieve stress and tension, days when work interfered with school were more likely to result in the students drinking! Yo...

In episode 57, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Drs. Jenna McChesney and Lori Foster. They talked about their most recent paper (McChesney & Foster, 2023). They conducted an experiment to see if disclosing anxiety and depression on LinkedIn harms potential job prospects. They find that it very well might! You can find Dr. McChesney on the website formerly known as twitter at @jenna_mcchesne...

In episode 56, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Valentina Reyes. She talked about her most recent paper (Reyes, Unanue, Vignoles, & Van den Broeck, 2023). Dr. Reyes outlines what it means to be materialistic at work and how that can hinder your ability to meet your psychological needs, ultimately leading to feelings of burnout. You can find Dr. Reyes on her faculty website ( https://www...

In episode 55, we are fortunate enough to be joined by Steven Zhou. He talked about his most recent paper , (Zhou, Aitken, & Kuykendall, 2023). In a Healthy Work first, we are covering a theory paper! Steven outlines his definition of callings, including an updated understanding of callings that can help people navigate finding fulfillment in these modern economic times. You can find Steven on the...

Maryana is out on parental leave, but the show must go on. We're excited to bring you a series of interviews with authors of recent papers on occupational health and wellbeing. The format will largely be the same as previous episodes, but instead of Maryana or Keaton explaining the paper, you get the author doing it in their own words. Look out for the first episode of this series on Monday. This...

In episode 54 we chat about a paper by Darouei, Delanoeije, & Verbruggen. Across two studies of around 80 employees each, on average, people who perceived work interruptions at home positively were more engaged and less stressed. That said, on days when there was a work interruption at home, it didn't matter how you perceived that particular interruption, it didn't affect engagement or strain. Thi...

In episode 53 we chat about a paper by Seulki "Rachel" Jang, Ho Kwan Cheung, & Michael Ford. In a study of over 100 workers, they found that feeling like your company cares about health and wellbeing predicts feeling less exhausted and, in turn, fewer insomnia symptoms. However, they found that this was not the case for people with high BMI. We talk a bit in our episode about limitations of the BM...

In episode 52 we chat about a paper by Nicola von Allmen, Andreas Hirschi, Anne Burmeister, and Kristen Shockley. They published a meta-analysis (a study of all the studies on a topic) on work-nonwork interventions. They found that largely, the most impactful interventions were those that directly increased personal resources such as time, mindfulness, and resilience. They also found that not near...

In Episode 51, we chat about a paper by Smith and colleagues (2023) about deciding to exercise after work. The study found that most days, people are in a slightly energy depleted but not highly emotional state, which means that the decision to work out is largely up to their trait health orientation. On days when it's all bad mood and low energy (thanks to high work demands), working out is less...

In Episode 50, we chat about some big developments in our lives that have kept us from the podcast, and also about a paper by Xie and colleagues (in press ) that focuses on the impact of negative workplace gossip on people’s ability to detach from work. Take away: being the subject of workplace gossip makes it hard to detach, and ultimately harms your satisfaction with life. Xie, J., Huang, Q., Ya...

In Episode 49, we discuss a paper ( Ocampo et al., 2023 ) on the impacts of HIV stigma on workers. People who perceived higher levels of HIV stigma from their peers reported higher fear and shame, and this shame translated into worse job performance. But people with healthier immune systems and higher core self-evaluations were less likely to have shame translate to worsened job performance. We re...

In Episode 48, we discuss a paper (Sayre, 2023) on the impacts of variable pay on health outcomes. If you have variable pay, you're more likely to view the world through a lens of scarcity, and this worsens physical symptoms and sleep, especially if you're highly dependent on that volatile pay. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu...