Workplace health benefits don’t move the needle on improving worker happiness and well-being. The solution is ‘more than a program, prize or portal’

Fortune January 17, 2024
Alexa Mikhail

From virtual therapy to time management classes and mindfulness programs, workplaces are hoping their commitment to well-being pays off in the long run with a happier, healthier cohort of workers.

However, in an assessment of 90-workplace interventions to improve well-being, William Fleming, PhD, a researcher at the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, found the success rates are murky.

“Across multiple subjective well-being indicators, participants appear no better off,” Fleming concludes in his paper published in the Industrial Relations Journal this month. Fleming also notes in his paper that at least half of employers in the UK have official well-being strategies. Workplace well-being, broadly defined, refers to how positive an employee feels in their job,...

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