Observations from the field: Workplace Wellbeing Trends from a Global Tour Photo Credit: Ave Calvar Author: Rachael Riggs, CMP, DES, SEPC; General Manager – Environmental Strategy & Wellbeing SME, Maritz In a November LinkedIn post, I shared my experiences from a whirlwind global tour, highlighting key observations and trends in workplace wellbeing. This journey, spanning five cities across two continents over six weeks, provided me…
New “In Pursuit of Wellness” Series Announced
New “In Pursuit of Wellness” series announced at Global Wellness Summit The Global Wellness Institute is pleased to confirm a new series of “In Pursuit of Wellness”, which was announced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions at the Global Wellness Summit in St Andrews earlier this month. Claire Small, Head of Creative, and Vlada Tusco, Global Head of Partnerships, took to the stage to talk about…
Burnout: A Multidimensional Challenge Requiring Multidimensional Solutions
Burnout: A Multidimensional Challenge Requiring Multidimensional Solutions Author: Talya Landau In a world where ‘busy’ is worn as a badge of honor, burnout has become the silent epidemic ravaging our workforce. I sometimes hear leaders say that it’s the employees who need to learn how to deal with the demands of work and life, and I also hear employees who say that it’s the sole…
Reframing Health at Work: Shaping a Prevention Economy
Reframing Health at Work: Shaping a Prevention Economy Author: Elizabeth Bachrad, MA, MSc Companies are increasingly interested in defining their social purpose and impact in wider society, but there is reluctance on the part of businesses to increase their responsibility for the health outcomes of their workforce. Why is this so important to get right? Because the UK, and arguably countries across the world, have…
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2024 Trends
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2024 Trends TREND 1: WAI: Wellness as Infrastructure The next evolution in wellness real estate is embracing wellness as essential infrastructure, not as “amenities” to be added, but as elements that are at the core – from country, state, city, town, district, neighborhood, building and dwelling scale. This includes designing roads and transportation systems to support human-scale mobility and…
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (November 27, 2024)
The World’s Best Hope to Beat Climate Change Is Vanishing–Bloomberg Not happy reading but a must-read to grasp easily and comprehensively what’s going on. In brief, key economies and industries are off-track with respect to their crucial emissions targets, all pegged to 2030 deadlines and crucial to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming. Far from being in retreat, carbon dioxide emissions hit a…
