Forbes January 13, 2024
“That ain’t working, that’s not the way you do it” isn’t exactly how the 1985 Dire Straits song Money for Nothing went. But could such a line describe what a study just published in the Industrial Relations Journal found about various employee well-being initiatives that many U.K. employers have been employing? This study revealed that such initiatives were not associated with any real improvements in employee mental health and well-being. In other words, all those well-being coaching sessions, classes, apps and other programs didn’t seem to be really working to address the growing mental health problems that have been affecting employees in the U.K. There was one exception, though. But more on that later.
For the study, William J. Fleming,...
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