Newsletter #34 – May 2025

Our purpose is to develop a common understanding across these diverse frameworks of what constitutes healthy jobs and can be communicated to the general public.

The review team is: Dr Eli Dutton, Dr Sangwoo Lee, Dr Katharina Sarter (all Institute of Employment Research, University of Warwick) and Professor Kevin Daniels (Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia).

On 22^nd May 2025, Evolve will be three years old!

Join us 12:00 – 14:00 on 22^nd May for an online interactive workshop:

–        Quick insight talks from Prof Kevin Daniels on implementing return to work support, Dr Bryony Davies on financial wellbeing for employees and Dr Zofia Bajorek on the importance of line management.

–        Speakers from our Network on ‘What one thing…’ they’ve found most useful about engaging with Evolve

–        Polls and discussion on what you would like to see from Evolve next (including a sneak peak of some things we are working on)

–        Q&A with expert panel of Evolve Team.

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/0ZLN5T7RMa

(Please note – due to the system we are using your calendar invite will not arrive immediately on registration, but don’t worry, we will send you one in due course).

Helen is on a mission to chat with human resource, wellbeing and organisational development professionals – to hear your professional needs and opinions on how Evolve could most helpfully continue bringing you evidence and evidence-informed resources, sustainably, into the foreseeable future.

She will be at the following events this summer. Please be in touch if you’d like to meet up for a chat, or say hello if you see her on the day!

–        The Watercooler 2025 – Excel London – 6^th / 7^th May

–        CIPD Festival of Work 2025 – Excel London – 11^th June

Book in for a 20-30 min research insight and audience need chat with Dr Helen Fitzhugh on a workplace wellbeing topic of your choice. Helen’s 30 min office hour slots are usually only open to Network members, but for our third anniversary Helen is throwing open the (metaphorical) office doors in May for HR / People and Culture / Wellbeing professionals who book on a first-come-first-served basis! Get in quick before she is booked up:

Book time with Helen Fitzhugh (NBS – Staff)

The next session is scheduled – members only:

·        Sickness presenteeism: is it always bad?

·        Prof Maria Karanika-Murray, Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology, University of Leicester

·        17^th June, 12:30 – 14:00

Applications to join the Network are open and membership is free to practitioners who have direct wellbeing responsibilities in organisations (e.g. HR, OD, OH or wellbeing job titles).

Read more about joining the network here: The Evolve Workplace Wellbeing Network – evolveworkplacewellbeing.org

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In this section we compile other evidence-informed links to pieces on workplace wellbeing that we have found interesting. The following are not produced by the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing team.

–        IFTF- Three Horizons of AI-Enabled Work and Workers

–        Beyond the Office? How remote and hybrid working can help close the disability employment gap – Lancaster University

–        How to improve workplace wellbeing – and why it matters | World Economic Forum

–        Working from home and well-being during the pandemic and beyond: a longitudinal analysis in five countries | BMC Public Health | Full Text

–        Does mindfulness matter on employee outcomes? Exploring its effects via perceived stress | BMC Psychology | Full Text

–        Evidence-based approaches to workforce wellbeing | NHS Employers