EU-CoWork: Developing Compassionate Workplaces in Europe for the digital and green work environment to protect employees’ mental and physical health and wellbeing

EU-Cowork旨在1)探索和了解因双重转变而改变的工作场所组织对面临严重疾病、家庭照顾、死亡、死亡和丧失(EoL经验)的员工及其同事的幸福感、业绩、工作质量和工作文化的影响；以及2)开发和评估定制的同情工作场所计划(CWP)作为健康促进战略，以在欧洲不同的国家和劳工环境中维持和支持员工的健康和福祉。该项目的核心是一项4个国家的跨国家混合方法干预研究，其中嵌入了过程和影响评估。该项目由两项相互补充的独立研究组成：a)对量身定做的化学工作方案进行国际共同创造和发展评估，b)结合一系列定量的横断面小组调查、定性访谈和实地考察以及政策文件分析，进行国际混合方法进程和影响评估。将在12个欧洲工作场所开发定制的CWP。欧盟-Cowork将提供关于几个工作部门的欧洲员工的工作场所同情心、身心健康和幸福感的调查结果，以及工作场所特征和工作同情心与(直接或间接)面临EoL体验的员工的健康和幸福感之间的关系。该项目将收集有关员工EoL经历、公司对这些经历的反应与公司和员工表现之间的关系的数据，以及欧洲应对此类风险因素的工作场所政策的可变性。因此，欧盟-Cowork将提供创造工作环境所需的洞察力和构建块，以确保足够的支持和政策，并量身定做以平衡可能加剧员工不利心理健康和福祉结果的风险的经历。

EU-CoWork aims 1) to explore and understand the influence of changing workplace organization due to the twin transitions on wellbeing, performance, job quality, and work culture for employees confronted with serious illness, family caregiving, death, dying and loss (EoL experiences) and their colleagues; and 2) to develop and evaluate tailored Compassionate Workplaces Programs (CWPs) as health promotion strategies to maintain and support employee health and wellbeing in the work environment, across different national and labour contexts in Europe. The core of this project is a 4-country cross-national mixed-methods intervention study with an embedded process and impact evaluation. The project consists of 2 separate studies that feed into each other: a) an international co-creative and developmental evaluation of tailored CWPs, and b) an international mixed methods process and impact evaluation combining a timed series of quantitative cross-sectional panel surveys, qualitative interviews and fieldwork, and policy document analysis. Tailored CWPs will be developed in 12 European workplaces. EU-CoWork will provide findings about workplace compassion and mental and physical health and wellbeing of European employees in several working sectors, and the relationship between workplace characteristics and compassion at work and the health and wellbeing of employees confronted (directly or indirectly) with EoL experiences. The project will collect data about the relationship between employees’ EoL experiences, the company’s responses to these experiences and company and employee performance, and about the variability in workplace policies in Europe that address such risk factors. EU-CoWork will thereby offer insights and building blocks needed to create work environments that ensure adequate support and policy and that are tailored to counter-balance experiences that may otherwise exacerbate the risk for adverse mental health and wellbeing outcomes for employees.