McKinsey March 13, 2024
Jacqueline Brassey, Lars Hartenstein, Barbara Jeffery, Patrick Simon

Better aligning employment with modifiable drivers of health could unlock years of higher-quality life and create trillions of dollars of economic value.

At a glance

  • Health can be meaningfully modified by factors outside traditional healthcare systems, including work factors.
  • Employers have considerable opportunities to improve health through six modifiable drivers: social interaction, mindsets and beliefs, productive activity, stress, economic security, and sleep.
  • Globally, improving employee health and well-being could create $3.7 trillion to $11.7 trillion in economic value.

Imagine a world in which employers make evidence-based investments in the health of their employees. In return, they reap a manifold benefit to those investments: their employees thrive, their business thrives, and the societies in which they operate thrive. There’s...

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