The key facts are for the Victorian public sector.
Overall, work-related wellbeing rose to 47% from 44% in 2021.
Employees who experienced high to severe stress:
How work made employees feel often, very often or always:
55.9% of employees agreed their organisation and leaders support their psychological and physical safety.
Employee engagement fell to 67.6 index points from 69.6 in 2021.
Work-related stress describes an employee’s stress response to work-related factors.
Most jobs involve some level of stress.
Moderate stress can improve performance and resilience. However, high levels of stress can:
Emotional effects of work are the positive and negative feelings employees experienced in the 3 months before the survey.
Positive feelings may lead to higher wellbeing and job satisfaction and a lower chance of burnout.
The results combine the answers of often, very often or always.
A safe workplace is a key outcome of Leading the way and the Victorian public sector mental health and wellbeing charter.
The results combine agree and strongly agree answers to these statements:
The employee engagement index is a weighted score out of 100.
A high employee engagement rating indicates employees are enthusiastic, motivated by and committed to their work.
The engagement statements are:
The weightings for each engagement response are:
The index is the average of these scores.