The McKinsey Health Institute’s 2023 survey of more than 30,000 employees across 30 countries found that employees who had positive work experiences reported better holistic health, are more innovative at work, and have improved job performance. Holistic health is an integrated view of an individual’s mental, physical, spiritual and social functioning. While it was found that more than half of the surveyed employees have positive overall holistic health, there are substantial variations between countries and age groups, with those aged 18-24 having the lowest holistic-health scores. Workplace enablers such as meaningful work and psychological safety are shown to strongly predict good holistic health, but burnout is closely linked to workplace stressors. The report concludes by offering organisational, team, job, and individual interventions strategies for employers that address demands and enablers to boost overall employee holistic health.
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The CIPD’s latest health and wellbeing survey report provides a wealth of benchmarking data and analysis on key areas including wellbeing, absence, presenteeism and leaveism, work-related stress and mental health. Key findings include employee sickness absence is at the highest level reported for over a decade, with 3.4% of working time lost per year and mental ill health and musculoskeletal injuries being the top causes of both short-term and long-term absence.
This report details the findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022. Most strikingly, the results showed that 92% of participating companies are continuing with the four-day week.
Jabra’s report finds that belonging, motivation, productivity, trust, work-life balance, and mental well-being are all positively impacted by increasing employees’ ability to control where and when they work. The report indicates that leaders must find ways to maximise employee autonomy while addressing the social, health and technological barriers associated with hybrid working.
The CIPD’s annual benchmark of job quality offering insights to improve working lives. This year’s report examines the impact of COVID-19 on job quality and reveals work-life balance, health and well-being, job security and the rising cost of living are key issues for workers.
Deloitte’s most recent survey finds the impact of the last few years has led the youngest generations in the workforce to reassess their priorities and expect more from business leaders. The survey findings call for business leaders to act urgently to shape work models that support work/life balance, learning and development and wellbeing, and prioritise climate action.
The newly launched Pissarides Review, a collaboration between the Institute for the Future of Work, Imperial College London and Warwick Business School, will research the impacts of automation on work and wellbeing and how they are differently distributed between socio-demographic groups and geographical communities in the UK.
This Ada Lovelace Institute report sets out the first-known detailed proposal for the use of Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIAs). AIAs have the potential to set global standards for the development of responsible technology in the workplace and beyond.
HubSpot's 2022 Hybrid Work Report reveals findings on collaboration, culture, communication, mental health, and management in a hybrid world. The report analyzed feedback from HubSpot's hybrid workforce and surveyed over 4,000 full-time remote, in-office, and flex workers from companies in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia, France, Canada, and Japan. Below are key highlights from the survey, fielded in December 2021.
The CIPD’s annual snapshot of the people profession, produced in association with Workday, provides an up-to-date, evidence-based picture of practitioners’ experiences and challenges in the UK and Ireland over the last year. It explores the seismic changes in the workplace caused by COVID-19, including the difficulties of supporting employees’ mental health and managing performance during home working, but also how people professionals' have responded to these changes and challenges, with over two thirds reporting they have needed to upskill.