Companies are increasingly working to address significant workplace and global challenges through wellness, environmental and social governance programs. Many organizations have signed up for wide scale ESG goals. Others recognize the difficulties of creating engagement and culture in a distributed environment. In boardrooms across the globe, companies are posing the question of how they will execute, measure, and monitor progress.
Measurement is a key pillar of WeSpire’s platform. The platform helps companies design and run programs that inspire their people to do the things they want them to do. Examples of goals include saving energy, volunteering, fitness challenges, and programs to improve psychological safety or reduce implicit bias. Financial well-being is also another aspect supported in the platform.
Stevens noted that one of the most positive aspects of a hybrid workplace is that it enables flexibility that is better for many employees, particularly women. At the same time, we all acknowledge that fully remote work is not great for certain types of work, such as projects that require extensive brainstorming and collaboration. She also shared that it can be challenging for new hires working remotely to replicate what was learned through osmosis in a physical workplace.
We see change when we practice new behaviors and get positive reinforcement for those behaviors. People are far more receptive and open to new behaviors at work because it's more of an expectation. A tiny micro behavior, such as ensuring a person isn’t interrupted when speaking, can be tied into inclusivity.