Employee Wellbeing in Healthcare: The Effects of Shift Schedule Evaluation Tool with Ergonomics Recommendations

Introduction: The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) has issued national evidence- based ergonomic shift scheduling recommendations using a traffic light analogy. The recommendations have been integrated into the most widely utilized shift scheduling software in the public healthcare sector. We aimed to investigate whether the shift planner's use of a shift schedule evaluation tool with ergonomic recommendations has an impact on the wellbeing of healthcare workers both at the individual and ward-level analysis.