The Energized Workplace

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2021 – HR & Management Category

Productivity is flatlining, employee wellbeing is at an all-time low and stress at an all-time high. Mental health issues are now the biggest single disability affecting the UK and are estimated to cost the economy £105bn each year. Traditional company design, structures and processes are making these issues worse and leading to unprecedented levels of staff burnout. This not only impacts individual employees, there is also a detrimental effect on overall company performance when employees can’t perform to their full potential. It is the responsibility of Organizational Development and HR professionals to address these issues urgently and redesign work to allow people to flourish and businesses to thrive. Full of practical advice, tips and tools, The Energized Workplace provides a blueprint for how practitioners can redesign their organizations to support employees and ensure the business outperforms the competition.

It covers everything from why existing structures are causing business output to decline, why traditional processes are holding organizations back and what the consequences of not addressing these design issues will mean for business including increased staff turnover, a rise in employee absence and a decline in company profits. Including case studies from organizations across a range of sectors who have successfully put people at the heart of their workplace design such as CyberClick, Mind Valley, Brewdog and Wegmans and with specific guidance on designing for five generations working side by side, across different countries and on separate time zones, The Energized Workplace will help OD and HR professionals confidently tackle the organizational issues putting their company success and employee health and happiness in jeopardy. This book is essential reading for practitioners needing to deal with the wellbeing crisis and productivity puzzle in the new world of work.

Author Biography

Perry Timms is a renowned blogger and international conference speaker on the transformative power of HR professionals. He is a consultant and coach based in Northamptonshire, UK, and the founder of People and Transformational HR Ltd. Named by HR Magazine as the most influential HR thinker in 2022 and inducted into the HR Magazine Hall of Fame in 2023, Perry is also a Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Professor at 4 UK Business Schools, a Chartered Member of the CIPD and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He is also a LinkedIn Learning Instructor and accredited in a range of psychometric tools.