Depending on one’s perspective, today’s workplace is evolving into one that is filled with great opportunities, or one that teems with terrible challenges.

Given the growing pressures and uncertainty of the workplace and its domination of our daily life, employee well-being at work has become an important concern for both employees and senior management.

A holistic view of well-being, where the whole human being behind the employee badge is considered, is proposed in this blog. Moreover, just as researchers in eudaemonic well-being have turned to Aristotle and the ancient Greeks, we propose that the concept of holistic well-being at work begin with the concept of the whole person in ancient Indian philosophy.

The previous research on well-being at work identified one key trend: Researchers over time have conceptualised the employee as a fuller human being, initially seeing him as a body performing work, then as a psychological person with hedonic or eudaemonic aspects, and more recently as a social being.