Special Issue “Rethinking the Subjective Wellbeing for a New Workplace Scenario”

Abstract

From the public health policies’ view, promoting subjective wellbeing is a must because it positively influences employee health and longevity. In addition, the International Labour Organization (ILO) promotes changes to achieve decent jobs, and one of the main challenges is to mitigate the intense pressure to adapt workplace conditions to meet new organizational goals. Subjective wellbeing has been widely addressed in the literature. For example, in 1999, Diener et al. reviewed three decades of work on this topic, and Danna and Griffith conceptualized previous research on wellbeing in the workplace. Twenty years later, Diener quantified more than 170,000 articles and books concerning this topic published in academia.