Objectives Evidence on the effect of smoking on sickness absence could guide workplace
smoking cessation interventions and encourage employers to promote smoking cessation …

We identify a positive causal effect of healthy working environments on corporate innovation,
using the staggered passage of US state-level laws that ban smoking in workplaces. We find …

Background Lifestyle factors influence the risk of morbidity and mortality, but the extent to
which they are associated with employees' absence from work due to illness is unclear. We …

Objective We attempted to estimate the excess annual costs that a US private employer may
attribute to employing an individual who smokes tobacco as compared to a non-smoking …

Background Organization productivity is strongly linked to employees' socioeconomic
characteristics and health which is marked by absenteeism and presenteeism. This study …

Background Smoking is seen as the most important single risk to health today, and is
responsible for a high financial burden on healthcare systems and society. This population …

Sleep disturbances have multiple negative effects on psychological, social, and
occupational aspects. The effects of sleep disturbances on the risk of taking sick leave was …

In this chapter, the authors provide an integrated framework based on past work to examine
the components of psychologically healthy workplace (PHW). This framework provides an …

Background Smoking behavior has been associated with poor academic performance
among adult students worldwide. However, the detrimental effect of nicotine dependence on …

Objectives This study aimed to examine the impact of smoking on productivity in Australia, in
terms of years of life lost, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost and the novel measure of …