Join us for our next event
15 June 2022, 12.30 - 14.00: Wellbeing at Work
The definitions of wellbeing vary, with wellbeing is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy’ and the World Health Organisation (WHO) defining mental health as 'a state of wellbeing in which the individual realises his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community’.
Employee wellbeing has expanded beyond physical wellbeing to focus on factors including culture, emotional, autonomy, social, engagement, and purpose. At the heart of this is the growing need for flexibility in where, when, and how employees work, with many employers looking to embed changes in working practices resulting from the pandemic. Wellbeing also brings with it challenges around how it is understood in organisational contexts and how it can be meaningfully measured.
At this event Affinity Health at Work will set out what constitutes wellbeing at work, the current context as well as considering potential measures. Microsoft will demonstrate how data can be used to support wellbeing in the workplace with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) providing a case study of how Organisational Network Analysis has been applied.
Agenda
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12:30
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Welcome from Katie Gronow (Chair of the People Analytics SIG Committee)
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12:35
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Scene setting: Wellbeing at work – Dr Jo Yarker, Managing Partner, Affinity Health at Work
Employee wellbeing is increasingly a board priority, and many organisations are investing in activities to support and promote the health and wellbeing of their people. All too often however, investments are not realised as interventions are not sufficiently supported or do not reach those most in need. This session will introduce the field of wellbeing at work, current thinking on what drives wellbeing and how it can be measured. We will consider how data can be used to accelerate our understanding of what works, for whom, when - and to help organisations to make better policy and practice decisions.
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12:50
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Presentation 1: Using data to measure Wellbeing in the workplace, Jasminder Thind, Employee Experience Solutions Team, Microsoft
Traditional methods of measuring employee wellbeing are usually limited to yearly employee surveys, but what do you do if they show that everybody is feeling burnt out? Behavioural data can empower you to unlock the mystery behind work patterns and trends that are most detrimental for employees in your organisation. In this session, learn how Microsoft Viva Insights can guide you to design strategic interventions to effectively target and improve employee wellbeing.
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13:20
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Presentation 2: Understanding and steering departmental culture through Organisational Network Analysis – Tom Wilkinson, Head of Data Science, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Going beyond monitoring departments’ sustainable working patterns, anonymised behavioural data like that in Microsoft Viva insights can be used with the powerful tools of Organisational Network Analysis (ONA) to measure much subtler collaboration patterns across departments – like Trust, Siloing and Agility. Tom Wilkinson from the FCDO will showcase some of their cutting-edge work to help leaders keep track of how their organisation is changing like never before, with support from Microsoft and their ONA team.
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13:50
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Wrap up
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14:00
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Close
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About the Speakers
Dr Jo Yarker, Managing Partner, Affinity Health at Work
Jo is a Reader at Birkbeck, University of London and Managing Partner of Affinity Health at Work. She conducts pioneering research and leads on strategy development, risk management and training and development programmes in the field of wellbeing at work. She contributes to national guidance and publishes widely to share new knowledge, evidence and tools to promote and sustain health and wellbeing at work.
Jasminder Thind, Employee Experience Solutions Team, Microsoft
Jasminder is a part of the Microsoft Employee Experience Solutions Team. She specialises in Behavioural Analytics and works closely with leaders across the public sector looking to use cutting-edge technology to improve overall employee experience, identify drivers of engagement and productivity, and deliver targeted actions to create meaningful impact.
Tom Wilkinson, Head of Data Science, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Tom is Head of Data Science for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, responsible for FCDO’s Data Science strategy, while also delivering and scoping data science projects and providing technical consultancy for externally commissioned projects – like predicting conflict globally. He previously also oversaw an embedded ONS team, working on global good Data Science tools and skills building across the international development community – like satellite-based estimates of economic activity. He previously led in the Department for International Development on Data Science, Data Architecture and self-service Data Analytics. He started out in government as an Operational Researcher in the Ministry of Justice’s Big Data and Exploratory Modelling team, alongside which he drafted the first professional and recruitment cross-HMG frameworks for Data Science, as well as establishing a systems thinking service to help policymakers engage with analysts generally. Tom’s Complexity Economics PhD modelled society as networks of various trust relationships, as well as probing the philosophical underpinnings of Economics and various Statistical epistemologies.
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