Workplace Health and Wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; airport cleaner; anaesthetists; baseline data; burnout; careers; childcare; church musician; compassion fatigue; coping strategies; coronavirus; COVID-19; COVID-19 disease; COVID-19 impact; COVID-19 pandemic; COVID‐19; Delta variant strain; dental clinics; depersonalization; digital; disaster preparedness; doctor; DRAMMA; early care and education; early childhood teachers; effectiveness evaluation; emergency; emotional exhaustion; employability; employees; enforced telework; environmental job stress; epidemic prevention and control; essential worker; essential workers; faculty-mentored research; fatigue management; fluorescent marker; focus groups; food insecurity; food system; frontline workers; gender differences; Germany; guidelines; health and social services worker; health education; health equity; health promotion; health protection; health testing; healthcare; healthcare workers; higher education; home confinement; homelessness; hospital health worker; hospitality industry; importance-performance analysis (IPA); infection control; infection control measures; infection risk; infectious disease; infectious disease control; insomnia; interaction; job demands; job satisfaction; lockdown; loneliness; longitudinal; longitudinal study; Maslach burnout inventory; Maslach Burnout Inventory; mass testing; meditation; mental health; mixed methods; moral injury; motivation; Nanjing Lukou International Airport; nurse; occupational characteristics; occupational determinants of stress; occupational health; occupational health and safety vulnerability; occupational safety and health; occupational SARS-CoV-2 risk of infection; occupational stress; off-job crafting; organisational culture; organisational justice; organizational climate; organizational justice; pandemic; paramedics; personal accomplishment; personal contribution in managing COVID-19; perspective study; prayer; pre-post COVID-19 study; presenteeism; prevention; psychological health; psychological support; psychological wellbeing; psychosocial work environment; public health; qualitative; qualitative research; quantitative job demands; racial disparity; regular epidemic prevention; remote work; restaurants; return to work; safety climate; SARS-CoV-2; Scotland; self-rated health; semi-structured interviews; sexual minority status; social capital; social care; social distancing; social isolation; socio-occupational disparities; staff; stress; students; supervisor support; Switzerland; teaching modality; telecommuting; trauma; undergraduate research experiences; universities; university; university halls of residence; vaccine; well-being; well-being at work; wellbeing; wellness; work engagement; work stress; worker; worker protections; workforce; working conditions; workplace; workplace health
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 In this reprint, we focus on health and wellbeing in the workforce within the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the post-pandemic era. We begin by exploring the impacts of the pandemic on diverse occupational groups, considering the broader mental health impacts of the pandemic, reactions to national lockdowns and behavioural strategies to control the spread of the virus, such as social distancing and self-isolation, attitudes towards infection control and work presenteeism. Next, we explore the relationship between job factors, working conditions and psychological wellbeing of employees. The papers that follow examine changes in work patterns and locations, such as remote, hybrid, and on-site working, the impact of organizational climate on mental wellbeing, and organizational approaches to return-to-work after lockdown. Finally, we present innovative organizational- and individual-level pandemic mitigation interventions, including SARS-CoV-2 testing services and infection control approaches, digital mental health support, and COVID-19 Vaccine Education. This collection demonstrates the breadth of research on work, health and wellbeing, during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, covering workforce impacts and workforce interventions in various countries and settings. Learning from this research will help to build global preparedness for future pandemics and foster resilience for responding in times of crisis and uncertainty.