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Workplace Wellbeing: Health, Energy and Work Habits
2,797 students
Workplace Wellbeing: Health, Energy and Work Habits
workplace wellbeing | employee wellbeing | burnout | stress management | work life balance | healthy habits | remote
Last updated 9/2026
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What you'll learn
- Tell stress and burnout apart, and recognise which one a workplace is producing
- Identify the working conditions that generate exhaustion, rather than treating it as weakness
- Run a cultural audit to find the hidden factors undermining a wellbeing programme
- Design a wellbeing system with a team, a launch, nudges and real impact measurement
- Protect a working week with SMART, the Eisenhower matrix, 4D, Pomodoro and GTD
- Set up remote work so the boundary between work and life survives
- Build a benefits package from research rather than from what competitors offer
- Justify wellbeing and benefits spend with a business case and a return calculation
- Learn alongside Mike's 1.6 million students from 185 countries
- Get the author's experience from Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
13 sections • 36 lectures • 19h 24m total length
Requirements
- A working life you want to make sustainable, or responsibility for other people's
- No medical or psychological background required, and none is taught here
- Willingness to look at working conditions rather than only at personal habits
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
- This is a professional course about work, not medical advice. For health concerns, see a doctor
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
First, what this is not. There is no nutrition advice here, no exercise programme and no medical content of any kind. This course is about the working conditions that make a job sustainable or exhausting, and how they are designed.
If you came looking for a fitness plan, this is the wrong course and I would rather you knew now.
Why individual effort does not fix this
Advice about work-life balance is almost always aimed at the individual: sleep better, take breaks, set boundaries. That advice is fine and it fails reliably, because the thing producing the exhaustion is usually structural.
A workload that assumes no interruptions. A culture where availability is how commitment is demonstrated. Remote work with no agreed boundary, so the day has no end. And a benefits package assembled from what competitors offer rather than from what anyone actually needs.
You cannot out-discipline a system. You can change one, and that requires understanding how it works.
Wellbeing and burnout as designed conditions
Thirty-four lessons. Six on wellbeing as a system rather than a perk: the classical model and why it stopped being enough, preparing the case, cultural audits that find the hidden factors, forming the team that owns it, behaviour change and nudges, and evaluating actual impact rather than participation rates.
Then six on how stress and burnout are produced at work: what the research shows, the difference between the two, the organisational factors driving each, the disproportionate influence of the line manager, training managers properly, and a pulse survey system that makes the problem visible before it is acute.
Time, remote work and what a company actually provides
Then six on the working week: SMART, the ABC method, the Eisenhower matrix, 4D, Pomodoro, Kanban lists, GTD, time audits, time-blocking, procrastination and its causes, recovery treated as scheduled rather than earned, and current tooling.
Then ten on remote and hybrid work, where the boundaries erode first: the move itself, working rules, the physical setup, supervision that does not depend on watching people, engagement without a shared room, health and safety at a distance, the skills remote work actually demands, hiring and onboarding, and culture that now has to be written down.
And six on benefits — the concrete thing an organisation provides rather than the thing it says: what people actually want according to the research, the types available, building a business case with a return figure, flexible and cafeteria-style schemes, budgeting from real need, and automation.
Who is teaching this
Mike, the number one HR instructor on Udemy. More than 1.6 million course enrolments, over 150,000 professionals trained, PHRi and SHRM-CP certified, HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. I built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals, designing the conditions people worked under and seeing which ones held.
This is a professional development course about work, not medical or psychological advice. For any health concern, please speak to a doctor.
What is included
Lifetime access to all course materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical assignments and real business cases
A section with additional courses, tools and resources
A question to start with
Write down the three things about your working week that drain you most, then mark each one as a habit or a condition. Most people expect habits and find conditions, and conditions are the ones that can actually be changed by a decision rather than by willpower. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Professionals whose work has quietly expanded to fill everything else
- Remote and hybrid workers whose day has no beginning and no end
- Managers responsible for a team's workload and working conditions
- HR and wellbeing specialists building programmes and having to justify them
- Office managers and operations people who own the working environment
- Founders setting the working norms their company will keep for years
- Anyone who has read a lot about work-life balance and changed nothing structurally