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        "uri": "/2023/11/09/workplace-of-the-future-is-your-organization-recovery-ready/",
        "title": "Workplace of the future: Is your organization recovery-ready?",
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        "summary": "One of the most important characteristics of a recovery-ready workplace is the commitment by senior managers and HR personnel.",
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        "title": "Wellness plans evolve from treatment to prevention for post-pandemic workforce",
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        "prettyDate": "March 03, 2023",
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        "summary": "As well-intentioned as the wellness, mental and behavioral health care industries may be, their efforts sometimes fall short of meeting the needs of today's post-pandemic workforce.",
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        "title": "How to combat workplace burnout and addiction with empathy and resilience",
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        "summary": "Workplace burnout and addiction is a chronic pairing that will not resolve itself.",
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        "prettyDate": "October 08, 2021",
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        "summary": "Now is the time and today is the day to prepare the workplace for the incoming tide of marijuana legislation.",
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        "title": "Using DEI to cultivate workplace wellness and addiction awareness",
        "byline": "Cheryl Brown Merriwether",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "September 01, 2021",
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        "summary": "Inclusion initiatives have had mixed results, in part because many employees suffer from presenteeism.",
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        "title": "The rise of workplace wellness: A history",
        "byline": "Cheryl Brown Merriwether",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "July 21, 2021",
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        "summary": "For wellness practitioners, it is clear that the more things change, the more they remain the same.",
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        "prettyDate": "July 02, 2021",
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        "summary": "Despite their negative effect on workplace productivity, conversations about mental health and addiction are often considered taboo.",
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