[8][9] De Neve is the co-editor of the World Happiness Report,[10] which is a publication of the Wellbeing Research Centre in partnership with Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

[12][13] De Neve currently guides the development of the world’s largest study on wellbeing at work in collaboration with the global job search site Indeed with over 25 million surveys completed so far.

[14][15][16] Their workplace wellbeing survey approach has been widely adopted including by S&P Global as part of the annual Corporate Sustainability Assessment underpinning ESG ratings.

It was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press and praised by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman as the "best book I have read in a long time - a fountain of knowledge and an inspiring call to action.

[20] De Neve served on The Lancet COVID-19 Commission[21] and wrote in the British Medical Journal proposing to assess lockdown policy options in terms of their net effect on years of human wellbeing, or wellbeing-years (WELLBYs).