Workplace Wellbeing Initiative
2021 Trends
TREND 1: Establishing a New Workplace Normal
- Working alone
- Ergonomics in home offices
- Work hours—separation of work and family
- Building connections and communication
- Personalizing the hybrid work model
TREND 2: Re-designing the Working Week to Prevent Burnout and Greater Social Wellbeing
- Managing and preventing burnout
- Caps on out-of-work hours communications
- Encouraging people to stop work and live their lives
- Focus on social wellbeing
TREND 3: Increasing Focus on Financial Wellness
- Post-pandemic financial recovery by families and individuals
- Programs to support employees to become better money managers and to reduce the stresses brought on by money issues
TREND 4: Greater Focus on Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Post-COVID worry and stress
- Managing fear of the unknown
- Financial insecurity
- Loneliness and separation
- Attention on happiness index
TREND 5: Incorporation of Wellbeing-Focused Leadership
- Greater care, compassion and empathy; Heart-centered
- The rise of the CVO (Chief Vision Officer)
- Adherence to the new stakeholder capitalism, including social NS environmental responsibility
- Creating new “thriving” cultures
- Placing a focus on race equity and health
- Stronger focus on diversity and inclusion, including gender
- Incorporating wellness into occupational health and safety
- Aligning workplace health strategies with public health initiatives
TREND 6: Recognition of “Well Workplaces”
- Emergence of organizations such as WELL; certification of workplaces as “WELLcertified”
- ISO 45003 standards for safety, placing significant focus on wellbeing factors
