About Steven Buck

Steven Buck is Glint’s Head of People Science for the EMEA region. He is a Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with over 20 years’ direct experience in the field of employee research and organisational development. He specialises in qualitative interviews, focus group facilitation, questionnaire design, results analysis and presentation to leadership teams, integrating advanced statistical analyses, and survey follow-up action planning workshops. Steven was born in Germany and grew up in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Glint, Steven was at CEB/Gartner, IBM/Kenexa and Willis Towers-Watson.

Posts by Steven Buck:

April 13, 2021

After a year of lockdowns, people are burnt-out but happier

by Steven Buck • Comment, Wellbeing

Glint’s latest insights report shows that there is a worrying increase in employees experiencing challenges with their mental health, with burnout risk trending upwards year-over-year. That spiked in late March 2020 and climbed by nearly 4 percent between August and December 2020. That’s not a big surprise, given the first challenging months of the global pandemic. Paradoxically, employees say that despite feeling burnt-out, they also feel happier at work at the end of a year of lockdown than they did at the start. Is this some sort of contradiction—or evidence of something very encouraging about the state of HR? (more…)

November 6, 2020

Furlough schemes are leaving isolated staff down in the dumps

by Steven Buck • Comment, Wellbeing, Workplace

Since March, Glint has been creating a dataset which now consists of 7 million survey responses from employees around the world and across a broad range of industries. Our aim is to take the pulse of the global workforce to see how it’s faring with our ongoing global health crisis and to understand its effects on work. The recent August report shows that pandemic-related layoffs and furloughs have hit employees hard. 56 percent of respondents report feeling less happy at work after seeing co-workers furloughed or laid off. Half of respondents say their organisation’s layoffs or furlough plans have had a negative impact on their workload (50 percent) and their sense of belonging or community at work (47 percent). (more…)