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548 gap statements mined from Workplace Health and Well-being papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,058 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • Third, future research could examine the resource dynamics described in this study using quantitative and multimethod approaches.

    Rethinking food at work: an examination of structural and social constraints and resource loss across the work-home interface · 2026 · DOI

  • Strengths include the focus on an under-researched age group in the occupational literature, the use of eight waves of a large set of panel data based on a representative sample of the Swedish working population, as well as several measures from registers with a high proportion of complete data.

    Subjective social status and common mental disorders in the Swedish working population: gender and age differences in longitudinal associations · 2026 · DOI

  • Future work should address this issue in order to better understand which groups of employees are mostly affected. Future research should examine the contribution of both work and non-work stressors to better understand the factors driving cohort differences in perceived stress.

    Do age and birth cohorts influence trends in the job demand–control model, self-rated health, and perceived stress in Sweden? · 2026 · DOI

  • Since well-being is a context-dependent construct, future research should prioritise sector-specific analyses rather than applying a universal approach to all employee groups. Attention should be given to professions where reduced well-being has been identified and where work is performed under conditions of high emotional, cognitive, and physical demands, limited professional autonomy, and high moral responsibility.

    Sectoral Differences in Psychosocial Well-Being: The Role of Work Environment Factors Across Public Administration, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, and Energy Services · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite growing evidence on the effects of workplace gender discrimination (WGD) and gender composition on workers’ mental well-being, little is known about how these two factors interact to shape overall well-being.

    Joint Effect of Workplace Gender Discrimination and Gender Composition on the Mental Well-Being in Korean Workers · 2026 · DOI

  • By systematically linking multidimensional goal characteristics with QQ in the under-researched context of primary healthcare, this study addresses a critical gap in the existing literature, which has predominantly focused on discrete attributes such as goal specificity and difficulty within sports and educational psychology.

    Impact of Work Goals on Quiet Quitting Among Chinese Primary Health Professionals Based on Goal Setting Theory: A Cross-Sectional Survey · 2025 · DOI

  • The mixed evidence on mental health and physical activity—the two most studied areas—suggests that HR managers should have measured expectations regarding the immediate impact of these programs. While DWPs have shown promise in facilitating behavioral changes such as smoking cessation and alcohol reduction, the evidence remains limited.

    Digital Wellness Programs in the Workplace: Meta-Review · 2025 · DOI

  • A cohort study that followed up hospital employees over a year showed that sickness absences increased with lower socio-economic status; however, this relationship is still not well understood since many factors and possible mediators can interplay.

    Absenteeism Among Healthcare Workers: Job Grade and Other Factors That Matter in Sickness Absence · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research should examine both individual-level and organizational-level stress interventions. Interventions in workplaces are always challenging and much remains to be learned about the factors that influence employee participation in wellness programs and improve their actual health behaviors.

    A Stress Management and Health Coaching Intervention to Empower Office Employees to Better Control Daily Stressors and Adopt Healthy Routines · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite the recognized importance of PSC in mitigating exposure to detrimental psychosocial risk factors at work, a validated instrument in French is lacking.

    Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the French-Canadian Version of the Psychological Safety Climate Questionnaire (PSC-12) · 2024 · DOI

  • Further research is also needed on mechanisms linking work-related factors to hypertension and CVD, the cardiovascular effects of understudied work stressors, high-CVD risk worker groups, potential "upstream" intervention points, and country differences in working conditions, hypertension and CVD.

    Prevention of hypertension due to long working hours and other work hazards is needed to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease · 2024 · DOI

  • While organizational hazards such as shift work and long working hours can be objectively quantified using human resource data and sensors, social and moral dimensions remain elusive.

    Occupational exposure limits for psychosocial hazards: A promising concept or a premature leap? · 2026 · DOI

  • While the findings reveal promising outcomes in several areas, they also underscore significant limits and gaps in the literature that necessitate further investigation to fully harness the potential of these programs.

    Digital Wellness Programs in the Workplace: Meta-Review · 2025 · DOI

  • One limitation emerging from our cross-country study is that due to the stepwise development of the new JCQ 2.

    An International Comparative Reliability and Concurrent Validity Assessment of the Multi-Level Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) 2.0 · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite this increase, if and how ESL policies impact nonfatal illness/injury reporting by workers remain unknown.

    Impact of Earned Sick Leave Policy on Worker Wellbeing Across Industries · 2025 · DOI

  • Several studies have found higher sickness absence in shared and open workspaces than in private offices, but little is known about why these differences occur.

    Does job control contribute to differences in physician-certified sickness absence across office concepts? A mediation analysis in a nationally representative sample · 2024 · DOI

  • Factors associated with suicide in physicians: a silent stigma and public health problem that has not been studied in depth.

    Depression and Anxiety Symptoms and Public Stigma of Receiving Psychological Help: The Mediating Role of Anticipated Stigma at Work among Healthcare Workers · 2026 · DOI

  • The association between ABs and musculoskeletal complaints also warrants further investigation to clarify the potential link between these factors.

    Active Breaks to Improve Workers’ Tense Mood: An Uncontrolled Longitudinal Study · 2026 · DOI

  • There is increasing interest in the economic effects of improving working conditions, however, evidence is sparse.

    Economic gains from hypothetical improvements in the psychosocial work environment: A cohort study of 71 207 workers in Denmark · 2025 · DOI

  • With regard to self-rated health, a few studies, including an earlier Swedish study, have examined changes in self-rated health by age and cohort, but the evidence is still mixed as to whether or not self-rated health deteriorates in more recent cohorts.

    Do age and birth cohorts influence trends in the job demand–control model, self-rated health, and perceived stress in Sweden? · 2026 · DOI

  • Within-person changes in psychosocial work factors covaried with psychological distress, although causal direction could not be determined.

    Diverging trajectories of job demands, job resources, and psychological distress before long-term mental health-related sick leave among teachers · 2026 · DOI

  • Psychosocial work perceptions and distress covaried within individuals, although their temporal and causal direction could not be determined.

    Diverging trajectories of job demands, job resources, and psychological distress before long-term mental health-related sick leave among teachers · 2026 · DOI

  • The study only collected data from a prominent technology innovation company located in eastern China, - The sample size was limited to 97 leaders and 509 employees, - The study used a time-lagged design with a two-week…

    Multiple influencing pathways of leader presenteeism on team performance gains: Evidence from China · 2026 · DOI

  • Investigate the impact of leader presenteeism on team performance in different cultural contexts, - Examine the effects of leader presenteeism on employee well-being and job satisfaction, - Explore the role of leader presenteeism in shaping team norms…

    Multiple influencing pathways of leader presenteeism on team performance gains: Evidence from China · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research on workplace well-being governance in the UAE using larger samples, - Additional sectors, document analysis, or a mixed-methods…

    From wellness events to well-being governance: an exploratory qualitative study of workplace well-being communication in selected UAE organizations · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Future work should address this issue in order to better understand which groups of employees are mostly affected (“Do age and birth cohorts influence trends in the job demand–control model,…”, 2026); (2) Since well-being is a context-dependent construct, future research should prioritise sector-specific analyses rather than applying a universal approach to all employee groups (“Sectoral Differences in Psychosocial Well-Being: The Role of Work Environment…”, 2026); (3) Despite growing evidence on the effects of workplace gender discrimination (WGD) and gender composition on workers’ mental well-being, little is known about how these two factors interact to shape overall well-being (“Joint Effect of Workplace Gender Discrimination and Gender Composition on the…”, 2026); (4) While organizational hazards such as shift work and long working hours can be objectively quantified using human resource data and sensors, social and moral dimensions remain elusive (“Occupational exposure limits for psychosocial hazards: A promising concept or a…”, 2026); (5) Factors associated with suicide in physicians: a silent stigma and public health problem that has not been studied in depth (“Depression and Anxiety Symptoms and Public Stigma of Receiving Psychological…”, 2026). 548 gap statements have been mined from Workplace Health and Well-being papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,058 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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