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Welcome to Good Employment Week 2026.

Good Employment Week 2026 may have come to a close, but the conversation around workplace culture continues.

This year, people from across Greater Manchester shared their experiences through our 'What does your Work Feel Like?' campaign, helping to build a picture of how work feels across the city-region and informing the future development of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.

Watch our highlights from the week, explore the campaign and add your voice to the interactive word cloud.

How does your workplace feel?

Everyone’s word cloud

People across Greater Manchester are describing their workplace culture in a few words. Add yours and watch the shared word cloud grow.

Top words so far, most common first:

  1. How does your workplace feel? (highlighted)
  2. Stressful (negative)
  3. Busy (neutral)
  4. Supportive (positive)
  5. Exhausting (negative)
  6. Demanding (neutral)
  7. Chaotic (negative)
  8. Challenging (positive)
  9. Toxic (negative)
  10. Flexible (positive)
  11. Results-focused (neutral)
  12. Fast-paced (neutral)
  13. Undervalued (negative)
  14. Friendly (positive)
  15. Purposeful (positive)
  16. Understaffed (negative)
  17. Burned-out (negative)
  18. Evolving (neutral)
  19. Productive (neutral)
  20. Overwhelming (negative)
  21. Frustrating (negative)

Bigger words have been chosen more often. Green words feel positive, grey are more neutral or descriptive, and red feel negative. Take part to add your words to the cloud.

Take part

Pick up to 5 words. It only takes a minute.

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