24
Jan
2025

Do wellness interventions actually make employees feel better?

policy and interventions

Irish Examiner

Yet, a question remains: Do wellness interventions make employees feel better?

William Fleming, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre, attempted to answer this question in a study published last year.

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His study looked at a wide range of wellbeing interventions and controversially concluded that almost none had a lasting impact on worker wellbeing or job satisfaction.

“While these findings do not entirely discount positive effects for some individual workers, any such effect may be averaged out by a negative effect elsewhere,” he concluded.