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Imagine if seeking feedback at work could do more than just improve your performance – it could infuse your job with meaning and empower you to take charge of your career. Recent research by Siyao Zhu from the University of East Anglia, and Bin Ma and Kristi Jain from IE Business School, suggests that when […]

If the government wants to develop fairer and more productive workplaces it needs to help organisations to rebuild managerial capacity, argues Professor Richard Saundry (University of Westminster).    On 17th July, King Charles III announced in parliament that the Labour government ‘will legislate to introduce a new deal for working people to ban exploitative practices

About this tool This new evidence-based guide aims to help organisational leaders and HR / wellbeing practitioners to improve their approach to employee wellbeing and achieve performance returns by building authenticity for wellbeing. Created by Dr Rachel Nayani (University of East Anglia) and Dr Marijana Baric (Anglia Ruskin University), it is based on an academic

Public-facing work (frontline work) received a shock during the COVID-19 pandemic that has not yet left us. Some employees moved away from retail, hospitality, care, tourism and charities for good or started to rethink their priorities in public-facing roles. This caused a recruitment and retention crisis that is still ongoing. Yet there are those companies,

Despite increased attention to student mental health in the media and within institutions, the wellbeing of postgraduate research (PGR) students can be overlooked. PGR students are often at greater risk of mental health problems and the PGR experience is normalised as one that is expected to be stressful. A growing body of research and evidence

New research from the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing research team (including researchers from the University of East Anglia, Swansea University, University of Liverpool and University of Sheffield) sheds light on links between unemployment and poor wellbeing, demonstrating why creating good quality, sustainable jobs is crucial to people’s wellbeing. The team investigated the impact of unemployment on

The Good Jobs Project has been an evolving process of research and public engagement on how to create a good experience of work for people in frontline (public-facing) roles – such as retail, hospitality, care, tourism and charities. The project identified and made insight resources on ‘4 boosts for frontline workers’ (available on this site).

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – September 2024 Apologies for the slightly early September email. We’re not wishing the summer away here, but various commitments mean that if this doesn’t go out now, it won’t go out until late September! As usual, pass this on to anyone who you think might find it

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter – August 2024 New Government – New blog article – New deal for working people If the government wants to develop fairer and more productive workplaces it needs to help organisations to rebuild managerial capacity, argues Professor Richard Saundry (University of Westminster) in our latest blog article. On

Welcome to the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing newsletter This bumper newsletter celebrates two years of Evolve Workplace Wellbeing Newsletters! We launched Evolve in late May 2022 and our first newsletter went out at the start of July that year. We have been adding evidence-based content to the site ever since. To help all our subscribers get