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Digital workplace well-being – why your initiatives don’t work as intended

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Many organisations invest in digital tools to improve employee well-being. Yet the impact often falls short. Why? This webinar explores the gap between strategy and employees’ real experiences – and what HR can do differently. Nazneen Rony is a PhD researcher at the Department of Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on organisational change and employee well-being, with a particular interest in the role of HR in digital work environments.

Webinar
Date
24 Apr 2026
Time
09:15 - 10:00
Location
Online
Cost
free of charge
Participants
Nazneen Rony, doctoral student Department of Business Administrationen
lotta Dellve, The Department of Sociology and Work Science
Julia Strandberg, communication
Organizer
Centre global HRM
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Digital well-being initiatives are everywhere. Pulse surveys, apps, dashboards. But despite increased investments, many organisations struggle to see real improvements in employee well-being.

In this webinar, Nazneen Rony shares insights from her research on how digital HR initiatives are experienced in practice – and why they often miss the mark.

Her research highlights a key challenge: the gap between what organisations intend to achieve and how employees actually experience these initiatives in their everyday work.

You will gain insights into:

  • Why digital HR tools don’t automatically improve well-being
  • How employees actually use well-being initiatives – and why
  • The “well-being paradox” and what it means in practice
  • Why focusing on metrics can undermine trust and engagement
  • How HR can design more human-centred approaches to digital work environments

The webinar also introduces a more human-centric approach to digital HRM, where technology supports – rather than replaces – meaningful human interaction at work.

This webinar is relevant for HR professionals, leaders and anyone working with organisational development who wants to better understand how digital initiatives impact employees in practice.

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