IWBI | Workplace Wellness

A WELL Certified™ project has the potential to add measurable value to the health, well-being and happiness of people in the buildings. It can also generate increased savings and productivity. Personnel costs significantly outweigh the costs for design and construction and operations and maintenance, with employers spending 90 percent of their annual operating costs on people. This means that even a small impact on productivity, engagement and satisfaction in the workplace can have huge returns on investment. By channeling resources toward reducing the biggest line item in the 30-year costs of a building—the personnel—the business case for WELL features a meaningful return on investment. View WELL projects.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Workplace, Meet WELL: Enhancing the Employee Experience Through Healthy Buildings
Human resource professionals see firsthand the benefits of promoting health and wellness in the workplace. As people, we spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, and a lot of that time is spent at work. HR departments are always experimenting with new approaches to enhance employee health and wellness, and now, leading research is demonstrating how better buildings can help make people more productive, reduce absenteeism and create more enjoyable, healthful work environments.

Health & Healthcare

Noise Isn’t Just Annoying - It’s Bad for Your Health
Dr. Eoin King is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Acoustics at the University of Hartford. King is well known through the industry for having developed novel environmental noise assessment techniques, with a particular focus on strategic noise mapping. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA (INCE-USA) and is Managing Editor for the publication Noise/News International. Eoin spoke with us about the dangers of environmental noise pollution and why it’s essential that our communities shift their focus from noise control to proactive sound design.

Health & Healthcare

Creating the Mentally Healthy Workplace
For those of us working in the 21st century, we’ve experienced technologies, innovation and efficiencies in our personal lives and across the global marketplace that were unthinkable just a few decades ago. On World Mental Health Day, we’re focused on the solutions and so are many global employers.

Health & Healthcare

Wellness at Work Goes Mainstream
Hosted in London, Wellness17 built on the foundations of WORKTECH to further explore all the facets that affect wellness within the workplace, from the impacts of technology and job design to workplace culture and best practices for supporting mental health.

Health & Healthcare

The Circadian System: Aligning the Body’s Internal Clock

Health & Healthcare

WELL Story: Light at Arup

Health & Healthcare

Top 5 Takeaways from the Light #WELLography
We could not be more excited to share the Light WELLography™ after the Great American Eclipse, which took place on Monday. In case you weren’t in the path of totality or didn’t have a fantastically homemade contraption for viewing the moon’s path across the sun, fear not, the Light WELLography will get you up to speed on everything you need to know about light and how it impacts you.

Green Infrastructure

WELL Scales Across Every Dimension
Healthy people through better buildings: That’s our daily focus here at the International WELL Building Institute.

Health & Healthcare

#WeAreWELL: Sarah Welton, Triathlete and Yogi
As the VP of Technical Solutions at IWBI, Sarah Welton is the primary point of contact for prospective clients and registered projects, as well as a subject matter expert supporting the WELL Building Standard and certification process.

Health & Healthcare

Top 5 Takeaways from the Mind #WELLography
Technology may be advancing every day, but nothing compares to the high-speed power of the human brain. We are a long way from creating a single piece of technology that can control your breath and heartbeat 24/7, keep your body humming along while you are deep in sleep, allow you to simultaneously answer email while watching Netflix, help you stay balanced during yoga class, navigate the NYC subway without ever pulling out a map, and experience the pure joy of a beautiful summer day. That’s an impressive to-do list, not to mention it just barely skims the surface of our brain’s capabilities. Well done, brain.
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