The Current24:40Well Founded: Do office wellness programs actually work?
Lunchtime yoga, mindfulness seminars and resilience training are just some of the ways big companies try to promote well-being at work. But one British researcher says he’s failed to find “any evidence” these programs actually help workers.
“[I found] no difference between those who participated in these types of initiatives and those who didn’t,” said William Fleming, author of a study published this month in Industrial Relations Journal and a research fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.
Fleming examined data from 46,336 workers at 233 companies, collected as part of Britain’s Healthiest
