🗞 Workplace Wellbeing Bulletin Volume IV | Issue 48 | Bulletin No 199

📅 Published: Monday, 1^st December 2025

AI-generated office leaves? Employee tricks HR into approving paid day-off – Economic Times A viral LinkedIn post showed an employee using on-device AI to create a convincing injury photo and secure a paid day off — sparking debate about verification, trust and whether leave-justification policies push employees toward misuse. Read more

Workplace boreout emerges as a growing productivity risk – Mexico Business News Boredom at work — or “boreout” — is quietly eroding productivity and engagement; employers must design richer roles and micro-challenges to keep talent meaningfully occupied. Read more

What five years of evidence on hybrid working tells us about the future of employment – The Conversation A synthesis of five years of hybrid-work research shows the real benefits (and trade-offs) are in task redesign, manager training, and equitable policies — not office mandates. Read more

How AI Is Killing The Value Of A College Degree – CNBC Youth unemployment in the U.S. is rising. For 16-to-24-year-olds, the unemployment rate jumped from 6.6% in April 2023, the lowest since the pandemic, to 10.4% in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Recent college graduates are particularly struggling to find jobs Watch more

Bank unions push for permanent jobs amid labour-code concerns – BW People Bank employee unions are pressing for fixed, permanent roles as India’s labour-code reforms raise anxieties about contactization and job security in the financial sector. Read more

Saudi Arabia’s new workplace dress code: What’s changing? – Moneycontrol Saudi Arabia updates workplace dress norms — a policy shift with cultural and practical implications for multinational employers and migrant staff. Read more

Growing workplace trust crisis — Outsource Accelerator New analyses show falling trust in employers driven by layoffs, surveillance, and poor communication — a structural threat to engagement and retention. Read more

Are you a leader of the first workplace? — Workplace Insight A timely reflection on the emerging “first workplace” leader: those who must build psychologically safe, hybrid-friendly, equitable environments from scratch. Read more