Job crafting motives and strategies to increase work-related well-being among healthcare employees.

The five workplaces were recruited through the researchers' own networks and all were already known to be active in developing their work environment. The authors say this may have limited the study to employees with more room to craft than the average healthcare employee. Managers recruited the participants, and the authors note this may have affected what people were willing to say, since their manager knew who had taken part. Data were collected over two years, from 2017 to 2019, which the authors say may have affected dependability; the occupational therapist interviews were the last collected. Only the employees' perspective is reported here. Managers were interviewed in the wider project but not analysed in this paper, and no patients were interviewed, so everything about how patients responded comes from the staff's account. The same interviews were used in another study within the project, though with a different aim and analysed separately. Sixteen informants, all in Swedish public healthcare, so the themes are tied to that setting and no outcome was measured.

The study was funded by AFA Insurance (AFA Försäkring), reference number 150336. The authors declared no conflicts of interest. The paper does not state that the funder had any role in designing the study, collecting or analysing the data, or writing it up.

Do not read this as evidence that job crafting improves well-being or patient care. Sixteen employees were interviewed about what they do and why, no outcome was measured, and everyone worked in Swedish public healthcare in departments chosen because they were already known to be active in improving their work environment. These accounts are not a tested intervention you can apply to your own workplace.