Revisiting Bereavement & Grief in the Workplace The Dying Well Initiative’s Trend #5 for the year 2022 was, “A refocus on bereavement leave policies in workplace bereavement.” Better late than never, we recently hosted a webinar exploring this important topic, which is more pressing than ever following the global pandemic. With the significant loss and grief that was wrought by COVID-19, alongside population aging, there…
New Global Wellness Trends Report To Be Released January 31 at the Annual GWS/GWI Press Event The Global Wellness Summit’s annual trends report, The Future of Wellness, has garnered a reputation for predicting billion-dollar new sectors. Preorder the 2023 Future of Wellness global trends report to see what’s next. The Future of Wellness is the only wellness forecast that draws from the insights of the renowned economists, medical and wellness professionals,…
Social Impact Initiative 2020 Trends TREND 1: Transparency is so in Openness is not just a must-have; it is expected by every stakeholder. Every aspect of transparency, from being your true self at work to openly reporting progress against your impact goals, is expected of the new corporate citizen. TREND 2: Making time to do good: an everyday expectation The workforce in 2020 will be…
Social Impact Initiative 2021 Trends Corporate Social Responsibility TREND 1: CSR is an Expectation Not a “Nice to Have” Corporate social responsibility is becoming a greater expectation rather than an added benefit to a company’s value proposition. TREND 2: Putting Investments to Work in a Way That Truly Matters Impact investing is the one sector of venture capital that has been growing exponentially. TREND 3: Purpose…
Social Impact Initiative 2022 Trends TREND 1: Change for Good A shift from performative “social washing” to taking action to help achieve the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. TREND 2: Nothing About Us Without Us Including people with lived experience of social problems in developing solutions to these problems. TREND 3: Stories are as Important as Numbers Increased use of qualitative data in the…
Sleep Initiative 2021 Trends TREND 1: Hotels shift focus to good sleep while traveling Recent research (linked here) shows that an important predictor of hotel guest satisfaction is the guest’s ability to get a great night’s sleep during their stay. What are hotels doing today to promote restful sleep, and what else could/should they be doing to help their guests and their ratings? TREND 2:…
