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Dying for a Paycheck

By Jeffrey Pfeffer

How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance―and What We Can Do About It. Harper Business, 2018.

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Dying for a Paycheck

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A research and data-driven text highlighting the enormous workload, long hours, and massive stress modern employees around the world face, and the increased risk to their health as a result.

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Who should read Dying for a Paycheck

Managers • CEOS • healthcare professionals • laborers • low- to high-level employees • anyone who’s ever held a high-stress job

About the author of Dying for a Paycheck

Business theorist Jeffrey Pfeffer is the recipient of the Richard D. Irwin Award for his academic contributions, having spent more than three decades as a business professor at Stanford University. He was a columnist for Business 2.0 and was named one of the top twenty-five “management thinkers” by Thinkers50, a worldwide organization dedicated to enhancing and developing business management.

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