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It seems we are continually finding new ways to improve personal well-being — and that many of those ways involve the workplace.

Gallup.com does an excellent job of tracking important and actionable aspects of “Americans' health and well-being.” They recently posted their “Top 10 Well-Being Discoveries of 2015.”

We've written about some of these discoveries previously, but it's useful to review some of their highlights, including:

• “Actively disengaged employees are more likely to have health issues. Disengaged workers are more likely than their engaged peers to report experiencing physical pain, high blood pressure and depression. They also report having more days per month when health issues limited their activities: 2.17 unhealthy days for actively disengaged employees versus 1.25 for engaged employees. Gallup found that an actively disengaged worker aged 40 to 49 costs his or her employer 85% more in lost productivity because of unhealthy days than an engaged employee in the same age range.”
• “The U.S. obesity rate continues to inch up. The obesity rate among U.S. adults in 2014 hit 27.7%, up more than two percentage points from 2008 and the highest rate recorded in seven years of tracking.”
• Getting more sleep is associated with higher well-being.
• Well-being and employee engagement have additive benefits.Employees who are engaged at work and have high well-being consistently outperform their peers who are engaged but have lowwell-being across a variety of business and health outcomes.