There is a growing interest in employee wellbeing in managerial research. In increasingly automated workplaces, employee wellbeing is influenced by new technologies and evolving ways of work. These influences have not yet been thoroughly understood or explored in extant literature. Considering the high implicit value of employee wellbeing, in this paper we review how automation and automation-enabling technologies have been associated with employee wellbeing. We use topic modelling to elicit latent topics from the broader literature intersecting automation and general human wellbeing (n=4,095), interpreting and extrapolating implications of our findings onto workplace settings. We found that automation carries the potential to improve employee performance, including job satisfaction and meaningfulness, relationships in the workplace, as well as physical and mental wellbeing. Based on our findings, we outline major emergent directions of research in the automation-employee wellbeing discussion.