healthy workforce, companies are exploring creative ways to encourage
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   [ ] Studies show that a happy workforce is a healthy - and productive -
   workforce. Photograph: Catalin Petolea/Alamy
   Employees who are happy at work not only perform better, but also cost
   270 worksite medical facilities. The results of that research informed
   For Humana, the economic value of employee happiness starts with a
   its 33 nursing teams, the company found that patients working with its
   But the impact of employee happiness isn't limited to Humana's nursing
   feel that their work has purpose accounts for almost half of their
   interested in the health, wellbeing and productivity as its workers.
   costs. Using an employee happiness survey developed by the University
   happiness. Whole Foods Market, for example, recently launched a B2B
   "That incentive has really worked to shift the composition of people's
   baskets, and that's a metric we can show the companies we work with,"
   With the support of Whole Foods behind them, the two began working with
   social network LinkedIn and electric car company Tesla Motors to test
   their program and figure out what worked best, both in terms of health
   classes, do lunch, and learn," Ahern says. "But in working with Tesla
   re-work our thinking and develop programs that could be impactful and
   connecting with farmers, so Full Spoon built out a network of farmers
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