How to Promote Workplace Health in order to Work into Old Age: Experiences from Employees in an Industrial Setting

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Process of the thematic analysis.

Phase 1: familiarisation	Data field notes and transcriptions were reflected in team meeting (ML, CH, AS, and KZ).
Phase 2: coding	ML, CH, AS, and KZ inductively coded the data. Both semantic and latent data were coded. Initially, 16 codes were identified; importance of good health, healthy living, exercise, healthy food, low stress, working condition, be needed, worries for computer-based working, ageing, changes in organisation, new project, uncertainty for the future, opportunities with senior life, checking own health, family structure, and social inclusion. The codes were triangulated in two small team meetings (ML, CH, AS, and KZ).
Phase 3: searching for themes	The process of searching for themes started in team meetings (ML, CH, AS, and KZ). An initial thematic map, detailed codes, and hierarchies of concepts were developed.
Phase 4: reviewing themes	ML, CH, AS, and KZ worked together in order to review and refine the five initial themes. All collated extracts were sorted and reviewed under each theme. During the process, two themes overlapped too much and were therefore reworked into four new themes.
Phase 5: defining and naming	The new themes were triangulated in team meetings (ML, CH, and KZ). Documentation of the team meetings gives consensus to the themes. Defining and naming four themes.
Phase 6: producing the report	ML, CH, AS, and KZ were checking the final version of the paper. All authors were involved in peer debriefing, interpretation data, coding, and analysis.