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Dying for a Paycheck

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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A brief summary of Dying for a Paycheck

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.

Key insights in Dying for a Paycheck

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What do you get from this book? How to reduce stress at work and live a healthier life
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Work and money are two major causes of stress, leading to suicide, homicide, and addiction
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Researchers have found that stress and inequality increase mortality rates around the world
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Layoffs rarely solve the underlying problem—they only increase health issues and add mental strain
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No health insurance leads to increased death and illness, especially in the U.S.
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Long work hours result in negative health consequences as well as increased conflict at home
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Job autonomy and social support create happier, healthier, and more productive workers
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People stay with jobs they dislike for financial reasons, prestige, and because it’s easier than finding new work
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Chronic illness, environmental conditions, and bullying adversely affect health; policymakers must hold companies accountable
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

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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