A Work In Progress: Unlocking Well-being to Create More Sustainable and Resilient Organisations

by Gethin J. Nadin

“A much needed AND brilliant piece of work. A Work in Progress is Epic and enabling.”
- Perry Timms, No.1 HR Most Influential Thinker 2022

For the first time ever, we have clear evidence that employees are now more vital to an organisation’s success than its shareholders. Buoyed by the Coronavirus pandemic, the influence employees have on organisational success means that employee wellbeing has quickly emerged as the most significant part of a great experience at work.


‘A Work In Progress’ brings together evidence from more than 500 studies, exclusive contributions from leading global workplace experts, and captivating advice from in-house wellbeing leaders from organisations including Ocado, Philip Morris International and Serco. This book aims to support CEOs, HR, Reward, Benefit and Wellbeing leaders to fully understand what impact their organisation is having on its people and uses some of the latest post-pandemic research and thinking to ensure we are building more sustainable and resilient organisations that employees want to work for and stay with.
Gethin Nadin is an award-winning psychologist and bestselling HR author who has been helping some of the world’s largest brands to improve their employee experience and wellbeing for more than two decades. This book brings together practical advice and real-life examples from the author’s thousands of hours consulting, speaking and researching on employee wellbeing.


Global Praise for 'A Work In Progress'

“In a post-pandemic world, employers face a new level of complexity in the wellbeing and engagement space. Gethin’s narrative gives both the new and the advanced reader opportunities to navigate these vast topics with a balanced perspective of theory and business reality, enabling all to consider their strategies and build a more inclusive approach”
- Dr. Andrea Kilgour, HR Director- Consumer Service, BT Group


“This book is HR’s North Star for cultivating sustainable, inclusive wellbeing in a complex world. Coupling rich evidence with best practice, Gethin Nadin urges organisations to stop using nonsensical, surface-level approaches and start uncovering the root causes of employee unhappiness”
- Becky Norman, Editor, HR Zone


“This book is essential reading for anyone interested in employee wellbeing. Gethin’s insight and passion for the subject shine through on every page. This is a must read for HR leaders everywhere”
- Kevin Green, Chief People Officer, First Bus, & Author of the bestseller Competitive People Strategy


“As we spend most of our waking hours at work, or thinking about work when not actually working, one of the benefits to arise from the pandemic has been a radical rethink about the nature of work itself. Core to this has been wellbeing shifting from the margins to being business critical. Gethin's status as a wellbeing evangelist, well before it moved more into the mainstream, makes ‘A Work In Progress’ the must-have bible for leaders looking to drive genuine employee-centred change by putting wellbeing front and centre of how businesses operate”
- Marc Weedon, Senior Director (HR) International, Zuora


This book is published by Benefex, the company behind OneHub, the award-winning employee experience platform. Supporting the wellbeing, employee benefits, recognition, and communication for over 1.5 million employees in 650 organisations across 70 countries, Benefex’s OneHub platform is transforming how people experience work every day.

402 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2022

About the author

Gethin is an award-winning psychologist who has been helping some of the world’s largest organisations to improve their employee experience and wellbeing for two decades. The last 10 years have been spent working as part of the senior leadership team at Benefex where Gethin leads thought leadership as Chief Innovation Officer.

As a frequent writer and speaker on employee experience and employee wellbeing, Gethin has been featured in Forbes, The Guardian, The Sun, The Huffington Post and The Financial Times as well as all major HR, Reward and Pensions publications. Gethin has been listed as one of the world’s top 101 Global Employee Experience Influencers for the last two years running, is listed on the Employee Engagement Powerlist, is one of LinkedIn’s top global contributors and an Inspiring Leader 2021. Gethin is also a regular keynote speaker, Wellbeing Advisor to Investors In People, ex-Chair of Wellbeing at the UK Government-backed Engage for Success movement and a Fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

In 2018, Gethin published his first book - the Amazon HR bestseller ‘A World of Good: Lessons From Around the World in Improving the Employee Experience’, which has gone on to inspire HR and Reward teams at some of the world’s best known brands. In early 2022, Gethin co-authored his "second" book ‘Das Menschliche Büro - The Human(e) Office’ a collaboration between leading academics and workplace professionals from across Europe.

In October 2022, Gethin published his third book ‘A Work In Progress: Unlocking Wellbeing to Create More Sustainable and Resilient Organisations’.