Working from home has its perks: Better coffee, easy commute, no fluorescent lighting. But, as any home office worker can tell you, there are also downsides: No more office social hours, no more ergonomic chairs, and no more quiet train rides to catch up on your podcasts. In this episode of the Better Off podcast, we’ll ask: Is working from home good or bad for our health?
Guests
Eileen McNeely, Founder and Executive Director of SHINE, the Health & Sustainability Initiative at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Bethany Barone Gibbs, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at West Virginia University
Credits
Host/producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert
The Better Off team: Kristen Dweck, Elizabeth Gunner, Pamela Reynoso, Stephanie Simon, and Ben Wallace
Audio engineering and sound design: Kevin O'Connell
Additional research: Kate Becker
How can we protect the health of incarcerated people?
Can we end chronic homelessness?
What makes a meal healthy?
Is clean beauty for real?
Is cooking with natural gas unhealthy?
Introducing Better Off Season 2: Home
Update: We’re better off when we can breathe easy
We're better off when we unstick the stereotypes around eating disorders
We’re better off when we age with resilience
We're better off with Juneteenth
We're better off with health equity
We’re better off when we stop pandemics before they start
We’re better off when life-altering illnesses can be eradicated
We're better off with mRNA vaccines
We're better off when we swipe right on public health
We're better off when kids are resilient
We're better off when science leads the way
We're better off when we can breathe easy
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