What if you could leave work healthier than when you arrived? That question challenges what we expect from the workplace, but a reimagined workplace has the power to sustain employees not only economically but also holistically.

In the book, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements (Gallup Press, 2010), Tom Rath and Jim Harter describe these elements as “the currency of a life that matters.”

The five elements are:
• Career well-being
• Social well-being
• Financial well-being
• Physical well-being
• Community well-being

Career well-being is about how you occupy your time or simply liking what you do every day. Rath and Harter write, “People with high career well-being are more than twice as likely to be thriving in their lives overall.” And that well-being is about “the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities.” But most important, well-being is about how these five elements interact.

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