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What's Well & Good at Work
What's Well & Good at Work explores research on workplace wellbeing, mental health, burnout, engagement, safety, and the policies that shape healthier working lives. Subscribe for the premium version of this podcast: https://paperboy.fm/podcasts/employee-and-consumer-wellbeing/subscribe
Episodes
What's Well & Good at WorkDoes inclusion follow workers home? Plus: mental-health leadership
This week looks at how workgroup inclusion, multiple discrimination, and mental-health-specific leadership shape next-day wellbeing, depressive symptoms…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan AI support wellbeing? Plus: digital harassment
Workplace wellbeing looks less like a perk and more like an operating system built from trusted AI, real protection from digital harassment, and hazards…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan Hybrid Work Earn Trust? Plus: AI Accessibility Risks
This week, hybrid work, AI accessibility, and bullying measurement ask whether workplace support systems are designed well enough for people to trust them…
What's Well & Good at WorkIs support structural? Plus: NP burnout and supervisor disclosure
Across hospital NPs, Dutch mental healthcare professionals, and working women in Jammu, support appears strongest when built into supervision, policy, and…
What's Well & Good at WorkDoes Workplace Bullying Predict Burnout? Plus: Loco Pilot Distress
A Canadian two-wave employee sample links bullying to later burnout, while Bengaluru loco pilots and Iranian emergency nurses show how work systems turn strain…
What's Well & Good at WorkWellbeing support or self-management? Plus: job insecurity
This week asks whether wellbeing support is built into work or quietly handed back to employees through privacy worries, heavy work investment, job insecurity…
What's Well & Good at WorkNurse coaching + German values: wellbeing beyond coping harder
From a Singapore nurse-coaching trial to 500,000 German employee value reports, workplace wellbeing points upstream to job design, culture, policy, and…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan Meeting Quality Cut Strain? Plus: AI Risk Checks
This week tracks workplace wellbeing through everyday systems, from meeting design and healthcare job stress to the verification burden in LLM-assisted safety…
What's Well & Good at WorkDo wellbeing supports need structure? Plus: reduced schedules and Helipad
Across housing authority staff, Australian employees, and workers with postconcussion symptoms, support becomes measurable when built into schedules…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan support beat workplace loneliness? Plus: job-share managers
Across 144 qualified papers, the strongest thread is that well-being depends less on perks than on daily systems of trust, control, workload, recovery, and…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan Leave Balances Warn of Strain? Plus: OSHA Inspections
This episode links Victorian healthcare leave patterns, OSHA inspection learning, and Swedish stressor data to a systems view of how workplaces protect or…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan Well-being Labour Backfire? Plus: The Lonely Worker
New workplace wellbeing work asks when support becomes surveillance, why supervisor value fit matters for lonely employees, and how small firms can handle…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan support be infrastructure? Plus: hospital heat stress
From German hospital heat stress to U.S. harassment interviews, workplace wellbeing looks less like perks and more like trusted reporting routes, trained…
What's Well & Good at WorkPresenteeism + Psychological Safety: Can Policy Protect Wellbeing?
New workplace wellbeing work connects psychological distress and BMI to presenteeism, then asks how nurse voice and ICU collaboration depend on daily…
What's Well & Good at WorkFlexible Work Rules + Loneliness: Wellbeing Is Job Design
New workplace findings point beyond perks, showing how recovery routines, relationships, supervisor support, and physical conditions shape employee health and…
What's Well & Good at WorkRobotization + nepotism: how hidden strain turns into exit
This week, wellbeing looks like a systems problem: change communication, fair treatment, safety culture, and work design all shape whether people stay engaged…
What's Well & Good at WorkCorrectional leaders overrate wellbeing; job insecurity raises suicide risk
Surveys of correctional staff exposed a 100% versus 31.9% access gap, while a meta-analysis linked job insecurity and job loss to higher suicidal behaviors…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan Burnout Screening Open Care? Plus: Workplace Stigma
From the burnout “Twilight Zone” to a five-factor workplace stigma questionnaire, the week’s papers push employers to turn measurement into care pathways…
What's Well & Good at WorkCan Loneliness Drive Nurse Burnout? Plus: Operating Room Noise
This week links wellbeing less to perks than to daily conditions: connection for nurses, quieter operating rooms, inclusive talent practices, and clearer…
What's Well & Good at WorkDoes inclusive language help people stay? Plus: well-being champions
This week’s workplace wellbeing thread is about making support visible in everyday design, from gender-inclusive communication to champion roles and…