In their ground-breaking new book, Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward, from the University of Oxford, present their expertise in happiness.
De Neve, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at Oxford Saïd and editor of the annual World Happiness Report, and Ward, a leading expert on workplace wellbeing and labour markets, assembled data from wellbeing surveys, including the Gallup World Poll, as well as responses from more than 20 million individuals gathered in their partnership with the jobs platform, Indeed. The resulting picture provides by far the most comprehensive account of workplace wellbeing ever assembled and explores the science behind employee happiness and organisational performance.
Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters shows the remarkable ways in which wellbeing at work varies across workers, companies, industries, and geographies, providing new insights into the origins of workplace happiness, which interventions really are effective when it comes to the drivers of wellbeing, and which ones are merely superficial. Linking differences in wellbeing ratings across firms with data on company financials and stock market performance, to conclusively show that investment in employee wellbeing is well spent.
