How Employee Wellbeing Became a Key Driver For Growth

The New York Times

While most managers Indeed surveyed stated they believe workplace wellbeing is important, they often fail to address it as an organizational goal. This disconnect is rooted in the fear of being viewed as someone who squanders resources on “fluffiness,” according to Prof. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford and the lead author of the Workplace Wellbeing and Firm Performance study.

“In the C-suite, they don’t like softness. They only want to look at KPIs that they consider objective,” says Professor De Neve, who is a longtime partner of Indeed who helped guide the methodology for the Work Wellbeing Score and survey in the 2023 article “New Research: Work Wellbeing Is Good for People — and Profits.”