On the effectiveness of individual interventions to improve employee wellbeing

Summary

In this paper, William J. Fleming explores the effectiveness of individual-level mental well-being interventions in the workplace. Utilizing data from the Britain’s Healthiest Workplace (BHW) survey, the study included 46,336 workers across 233 organizations. The research focused on common well-being interventions like resilience training, mindfulness, and well-being apps, assessing their impact on various subjective well-being indicators.

The study was structured around three hypotheses:

1. Individual-level mental well-being interventions improve subjective well-being outcomes.

2. Interventions improve subjective accounts of the work environment.

3. The effects of interventions