![]() Public (general collective internet community) versus business and industrial interest in online web search interest in the wellbeing and resilience of workers can be assessed by trends in popular web search engines, such as Google. ![]() The internet is a common source of online health information. Interestingly, it remains unknown whether there has been interest in improving both the wellbeing and resilience of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, leadership can offer training to support workplace resilience. Resilience allows for the self-mitigation of negative emotions related to workplace stress. Stress affects cognitive performance and worker productivity and self-wellbeing. It is suggested that information on resilience can be sourced from the internet to inform workplace management of strategies and interventions to enhance workplace resilience.ĭeclined worker resilience during COVID increases the risk for emotional distress and burnout. Psychological resilience for an individual worker is complex and includes personality traits as well as more trainable intrapersonal factors for coping. Resilience can be subdivided into (i) organizational worker responses to external threats such as COVID (ii) organizational reliability of employees (iii) employee adaptability and (iv) ability of workers to shift business models to maintain services or supply chains. However, increasing resilience alone is likely not enough to mitigate a risk of decline in wellbeing, as many internal and external factors can influence individual wellbeing. ![]() Decline in wellbeing may be mitigated by improving psychological resilience. Changes in work environments, have been recognized as a cause of burnout, stress, and poor worker wellbeing. Wellbeing includes components of mental, physical, and work-related health. There are differing search interests depending on whether the category business and industrial is chosen versus the general Google Trends category. Online interest in wellbeing and resilience represents a complex search metric. Sub-group analyses demonstrated the category business and industrial had less web search interest in wellbeing and an increase in search terms related to resilience but not psychological resilience. Open category searches on Google trends for the key words “worker wellbeing” or “wellbeing” demonstrated increased SVI peaks for COVID periods. The relationship between web search interest, reflected by search volume index (SVI) for all categories versus the business and industrial category evaluated. Two time periods were compared, the last 5 years and the last 12 months, both up until the end of April 2022. Using Google Trends, data on global search English word queries we compared “worker wellbeing” or “wellbeing” versus “resilience” or “psychological resilience”. ![]() Our objective to investigate internet interest in both wellbeing and resilience during COVID. It is important to understand interest in wellbeing and resilience as both constructs influence health and burnout. The comparison of Google internet searches for worker wellbeing and resilience during COVID has not previously been undertaken. ![]()
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