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Collaboration with companies and economic sectors directly related to the project is a fundamental part of it. In the different geographical locations, a plan for collaboration with companies was drawn up, consisting of actions to disseminate the project and protocols for access to data and transfer of results. To obtain the collaboration of the companies, a procedure was carried out that involves the presentation of the project, the theoretical base model and the main variables considered for the company and sometimes also for the workers' representatives, and a confidentiality agreement that sometimes is formally stablished. In addition, we prepare a report with the overall results for each of the companies participating in the project. Results are offered at the company and unit level (only aggregated data are offered to preserve the confidentiality of the individual data). Specifically, those reports include information about general levels of well-being and performance, a description of employees' perceptions about job characteristics and the human resources practices carried out by the company,  and an average description of  the personal factors that are the object of study in this project.

The collaboration has been established with a fairly heterogeneous sample of organizations in five geographic areas: Spain, Poland, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador. There are companies from both public and private organizations, from different productive sectors. Thus, for example, in Poland we have collaborated with universities, mining companies, construction, restaurants or human resources consultancies. In Spain, some of the team members maintain collaborations with some of the participating companies. Thus, for example, we collaborate with the Wellness Committee of the SPB company and with the consultant italento in advisory tasks.

Other types of collaborations are maintained with business associations or consultants in the field of human resource management. In Italy, a collaborative relationship is maintained with the LAICA business association (Libera Associazione delle Imprese e delle Professioni nel Salento) and we have also collaborated with local companies (Links management, LEgacoop Puglia region, Deghi Group). In Brazil, Professor Pérez-Nebra maintains various collaborations with companies such as the Maternal and Child Hospital of Brasilia, Correios e Telégrafos, the Ministry of Health or the Secretary of Educaçao do Distrito Federal. In this context, in addition to the feedback given to the organizations, some interventions have been carried out aimed at redesigning positions, some of which have been published lately. In Spain, one of the researchers of the project, prof. Peiró participated in the International Conference on Human and Healthy Companies, organized by The Most Human Foundation. It is a private entity that promotes the humanization of business management models and social structures. The objective of these conferences was to analyze the impact of health on the business world and help companies to implement work models based on people's health and well-being. Within the framework of these conferences, the researcher participated in a round table with other experts such as Patrick Légeron, Founder of Stimulus, and Christine Loos, General Director of Stimulus Spain. There was also a personal interview on business practices related to well-being and productivity.

The other main researcher, prof. Tordera collaborated with the association of students of labor relations and human resources during the LVIII AERELABO Congress, which was held in Valencia in April 2019. In this congress, an invited presentation was presented with the general model of the project and some specific results. under the title: “Human Resources Policies: Diversity Management. Sustainable well-being at work. HR practices at different stages of life ”. Also noteworthy is the collaboration with the Smart and Sustainable offices (SSO) project. This project is part of the initiatives of the European Institute of Technology, and aims to transfer knowledge to improve the performance of construction technologies to improve the development of sustainable buildings. Specifically, the objective is to seek the development of economically, environmentally and socially sustainable offices that achieve better performance than a conventional office. From a clearly applied and transfer perspective, and starting from the present project, some of the members of our research and work team participate in the development of this objective, emphasizing the perspective of social sustainability of the offices, the development of sustainable well-being. at work.

It should also be noted that, within the framework of this project, a congress was held in Valencia in October 2019, specifically aimed at disseminating the results: "I Congress on quality of work and employment from a psychosocial and organizational perspective", was invited to participate both the companies that collaborated in the project and consultants, unions, human resources managers. Likewise, a round table was developed in which companies and professionals related to people management in organizations participated. Currently, contacts are also maintained with different consultants, both nationally (I-talent, Inmerco) and internationally (Cincel), with whom they are collaborating on issues related to the results of the project itself.

Finally, the researchers of the project have participated in different congresses, courses and workshops of an international nature in which they have disseminated in the business and professional field the main results and proposals for intervention derived from the project. For example, participation in the Latin American Council of Management Schools in Colombia in 2016, the I Organizational Happiness European days in Lisbon or the 29th International Congress of Applied Psychology in Montreal, both in 2018, or in the Task Force for Policy Impact of EAWOP (2017) or at the General Assembly of the European Network of Organizational Psychology professors (2016, 2018).