'Why Workplace (employee) Well-being Is Important
Well-being is defined in the Oxford dictionary as a state of being comfortable, healthy, and happy. In the workplace today, especially in the traditional entry-level or lower salaried roles people are commonly struggling with financial and health related issues. Added to this there is a lack of community and connection, as well as not getting to spend adequate time in rest and recovery or with loved ones. Psychometric/personality tests on this demographic at any age in or any industry is not going to yield the results an employer wants, or an employee is going to get on board with.
For people who have more time, money, and availability to meet their fundamental needs psychometric or personality testing can feel like a stressor or irrelevant, this may skew results, it could also leave a person trying to fit themselves into results of the test. I have a conversation with Organisational Psychologist Danny Wareham in our video here which speaks to this a bit more.
Getting to know a person properly in a neutral environment, gives us a baseline for more interactions with them. If we never have an opportunity to learn a true baseline, we will never get to see the person. Testing is not a neutral feeling activity, therefore an element of stress is aways going to be present and will lead to inaccurate responses. These types of tests are also full of loaded questions with inadequate ways to give an accurate response.
