Global technology leader Siemens AG has signalled its commitment to wellbeing by joining the World Wellbeing Movement.

The German multinational is the latest Member of a growing Movement of like-minded businesses, philanthropic organisations and research organisations with the common goal of putting wellbeing at the heart of decision-making in both business and public policy.

Founding members of the World Wellbeing Movement include global brands such as Unilever, Indeed and HSBC, among others. The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford serves as the Movement’s academic partner.

Siemens employs around 312,000 people worldwide across a diverse industrial technologies and services portfolio. Membership of the World Wellbeing Movement enables Siemens to build upon the existing company-wide health and safety culture and further improve work wellbeing in a holistic manner.

This approach aligns with the Siemens Healthy and Safe @ Siemens Program, which is about empowering people to lead better, learn from each other, foster wellbeing and innovate the health and safety of work.

Sarah Cunningham, Managing Director of the World Wellbeing Movement, said: “Only through true collaboration between thought leaders and changemakers alike can we hope to achieve the World Wellbeing Movement’s ambitious mission, and create a better world where we put wellbeing first for all.

“We also feel strongly that our supporters and partners not only share in our mission, but also align with our values: and we therefore feel a sense of enormous gratitude to welcome Siemens as the latest Member of our ever-growing Movement.

“Taking this major step demonstrates a clear commitment to wellbeing, and we look forward to developing our collaboration with Siemens to create positive impact on a global scale.”

Anna Borg, Head of Psychosocial Health and Well-being at Siemens, said: “At Siemens, we firmly believe that work wellbeing is essential for achieving business success. We know that wellbeing is the result of the right actions taken by a company – actions that extend beyond the individual and encompass how work is organized and designed.

“This is why we have joined the World Wellbeing Movement, a partnership grounded in solid academic research that enables us to collaborate, learn, and advance our strategic approach to the wellbeing of our people.”

Founded in July 2022, the World Wellbeing Movement has already enabled far-reaching impact through publication of its open-access, evidence-based Work Wellbeing Playbook, drawn from a multidisciplinary review of more than 3,000 academic studies of workplace wellbeing interventions.

Experts from the Wellbeing Research Centre support Indeed’s Work Wellbeing Score, the largest study of workplace wellbeing in the world; and enabled the World Wellbeing Movement to provide justification for the inclusion of science-based employee wellbeing measures within S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment, completed by more than 13,000 organisations globally.