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Recent Global Trends
A continuing increase in focus on Mental Wellbeing, including a shift from managing mental health cases and challenges to preventing mental health challenges.
Remote work, hybrid work and return to office policies are still significant and largely unsolved issues in many sectors. This also includes the pending possibility of a shift to a four-day working week.
Focus on financial education and financial wellbeing. Rising Interest rates, inflation, and rising energy costs across the world are creating new and unexpected pressures on employees and their families.
Emerging trends in menopause awareness and implementation of business support systems.
There is an increased focus on musculoskeletal programmes, especially for those continuing in remote or hybrid arrangements. Virtual trainings and intervention programmes support ergonomic home office arrangements.
Wellbeing being viewed as a genuine strategy for business success as opposed to a “nice to have.”
There is an ongoing influence of environmental, social and corporate governance investing on workplaces and a general overhaul of workplace cultures in the direction of greater support for the wellbeing of the employee, as companies strive to become more palatable to investors.
Wellbeing is moving beyond the physical, as programmes move toward more of a “whole person” focus including family and community, togetherness and purpose.
More training and development of middle managers and lower-level supervisors to help them to treat employees with respect and civility and remove domination, bullying and abusive behaviours.
*The Global Wellness Institute, Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Trends for 2023