The Pursuit of wellness

Summary:

Workplace interventions to improve employee wellbeing should focus on the psychosocial work environment and worker participation.

According to the CIPD, wellbeing is on ‘senior leader’s agendas’ in 69% of organisations¹. How they follow words with action is what counts, however. An Oxford University study of 46,336 employees and 233 companies found that individual-level interventions did not improve workers’ mental health and wellbeing² (pp.30–31). Employees who participated in, for example, mindfulness, resilience training, time management and wellbeing apps, were no better off than those who did not. By contrast, a Harvard University systematic review of 83 studies found that organisational- and group-level interventions improved worker …

Dr John Ballard is editor of Occupational Health [at Work]

Author: Ballard J

Tags wellbeing

Occupational Health at Work April/May 2024 (vol. 20/6) pp03

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