Perhaps you’re back in the office four or five days a week. Possibly you’ve resumed your 9-5 grind, the leniency of working around your busy home life lost. And maybe Zoom meetings wearing a blouse with pajama bottoms feel like a lifetime ago. But whether or not you’ve fully reverted to pre-COVID work life, chances are your well-being on the job has suffered in recent years, a new report suggests.
As employers have scaled back the flexibility they offered during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, workplace well-being has diminished nationwide, according to a report published last month by the Human Capital Development Lab at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in partnership with Great Place to Work. The annual survey of more than 1.5 million people at over 2,500 firms showed that from 2019 through 2023, workplace well-being peaked in 2020 before dwindling in the last three years.
