Too often, wellbeing initiatives focus on individualized strategies and changing the worker – instead of focusing on organizational practices that could have a greater impact.
That’s according to researcher William Fleming, who recently conducted a study looking at the effectiveness of mental well‐being interventions such as mindfulness, resilience and stress management, and well‐being apps.
“I find little evidence in support of any benefits from these interventions, with even some small indication of harm,” says the Unilever Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre at University of Oxford, in his study published in the Industrial Relations Journal.
