1、Work Culture&Mental WellbeingRapid Report/The Global Mind Project October,2024Dear Reader,When we first embarked on evaluating how work culture impacts employee mental health and wellbeing we expected to see a moderate effect.For starters,we were probing 9 factors that already have a substantial lit

2、erature behind them in the context of employee engagement,wellbeing,and stress.However,even with this prior knowledge,the magnitude of impact of work culture on employee mental wellbeing,and the aspects that dominate,has come as a tremendous surprise.Weve been conditioned to think that there is a se

3、paration between our work and life,implicit in the term work-life balance.This suggests that work is the transactional part of life,with the personal side at home and out with friends,separate from the workplace.Instead,what we find here is that our work life is every bit as personal as our home or

4、family life.In other words,the relationships and meaning we find,or fail to find,at work are every bit as important to our mental wellbeing as our relationships at home.Out of the 9 aspects of work culture that we looked at,relationships with your colleagues and feeling a sense of pride and purpose

5、in your work came in at the top of the list in terms of impact to mental wellbeing,regardless of what type of job you do.A lack of good relationships and a poor sense of pride and purpose at work,even for those who were good at forming and navigating relationships,was associated with severe feelings

6、 of sadness or hopelessness,unwanted,strange thoughts,reduced energy levels and motivation,and even feelings of being detached from reality.Also impactful,but by half as much as these relational factors,were the traditional work-life balance factors such as workload and the flexibility you have over