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🌟 LATEST RESEARCH: How can organisations effectively tackle work demands? 🌟 Last week we were able to pre-launch the results from our latest Affinity Research Consortium project which focused on identifying how to address potentially harmful work demands and workload. ❓Why did our research consortium choose this topic? 🧮 Year on year, workload is cited as the leading cause of stress at Work and is attributable to 60% of employee stress (CIPD Health and Wellbeing Report, 2022) 📚 Most people perceive that work is getting more intense and demanding (Mental Health UK) 📌It is a particular issue in the UK, where we have higher numbers of additional hours than all of our European Peers (Commission for Healthy Working Lives). ☑️What did we do? 📃 Systematic review of academic and practitioner literature to identify effective interventions to address work demands and workload (22 papers included) 🪑A round table with stakeholders and policy makers who had successfully addressed work demands 🏭 An intervention using PAR (Participatory Action Research) with 4 organisations (cross sectoral, cross discipline) where a committee identified the issue through data (our surveys and existing data) and developed and actioned interventions 📆 Worked with the organisations, measuring both process and outcomes over 6 months 📩 What did we find? 📑There is very little research which tells us how to effectively reduce work demands. Most research focuses on increasing resources (such as training) rather than addressing the demands themselves. 📊 The PAR intervention worked!! Each organisation had different needs and put in place different interventions (for instance increasing focus time, training people in how to use Slack, summarising communications into a face-to-face session) - and each saw benefits at the end. 🌟 Our free-to-access research report will be published in January and will include: ✔️ Full details of the research and literature review ✔️Clear details of how to set up a PAR intervention ✔️Case studies from each organisation ✔️Tips to avoid and to focus on to enhance the effectiveness of your intervention We will be posting more about our results over the next two weeks. If you are interested in finding more about our research consortium, have a read at the link below or get in touch through hello@affinityhealthatwork.com. The focus for our 2025 research is going to be launched this week! https://lnkd.in/eipan4yd

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