World Wellbeing Week: Why Employee Experience and Engagement Matter More Than Ever

Katie Austin

Minutes
24 June 2025
Wellbeing
Employee Engagement
Employee Experience
As we mark World Wellbeing Week, it's the perfect moment to pause and reflect—not just on how we support wellbeing at work, but why it's so critical. While wellbeing initiatives often focus on perks or isolated campaigns, true workplace wellbeing is far deeper. It’s built—and sustained—through the daily lived experiences of employees.

At The EX Space, we believe that employee experience (EX) and employee engagement (EE) are not peripheral to wellbeing; they’re its most powerful drivers.

  • EX shapes how work feels - through systems, leadership, and moments that matter.
  • EE reflects how connected people are to purpose, autonomy, and each other.
  • Wellbeing is the outcome - human, emotional and sustainable.

This World Wellbeing Week, we’re drawing on lessons from global models and everyday moments to show how better design leads to better wellbeing. And we’ve included practical tools and learning resources to help you embed wellbeing where it matters most: in your people’s experience.

Insights + Resources: Rethinking Wellbeing at Work

Want to dig deeper into how organisations can truly embed wellbeing into the employee experience? Here are three essential resources from The EX Space:

  • What the world’s biggest organisations can learn from one of its smallest nations - Discover how Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness model offers a fresh, values-led approach to success—placing community, belonging, and psychological wellbeing at the heart of progress. What if business strategy started with happiness?
  • EX, Engagement & Stress at Work: What You Need to Know - Explore how stress isn’t just a personal issue—it’s a signal of poor design. This blog outlines why employee engagement and experience are key to reducing burnout and improving resilience across teams.
  • Webinar: Mastering Resilience - A dynamic session designed to help leaders and teams understand what resilience really means—and how to build it. This webinar provides actionable tools to support emotional wellbeing and sustainable performance in the flow of work.

Pro Tools for Deeper Wellbeing Impact

For EX leaders and practitioners looking to embed wellbeing as a strategic pillar—not just a side initiative—Pro membership at The EX Space offers access to deeper, experience-led resources that turn insight into sustainable action.

From Insight to Action: Your Path to World Wellbeing

This World Wellbeing Week, the call isn’t just to care—it’s to design. True workplace wellbeing isn’t delivered through surface-level perks or reactive policies. It’s created through the experiences people have every day, shaped by how they’re supported, heard, and empowered.

So where do you start?

Your Three-Step Wellbeing Roadmap:

  1. Measure what matters – Go beyond engagement scores: explore psychological safety, autonomy, alignment, and energy
  2. Design with intent – Identify friction points in the employee journey and reimagine key moments with wellbeing in mind
  3. Embed and empower – Equip managers, EX teams, and leaders with tools, frameworks and ongoing learning that make wellbeing part of culture—not just a campaign

By integrating employee experience (EX) and employee engagement (EE) into your wellbeing strategy, you create the conditions where people don’t just perform—they thrive. The future of wellbeing is clear: it's not a programme. It's an experience—by design.