2022 SIOP: Is There a Business Case for Healthy Workplaces?

2022 SIOP Annual Conference

Topic: Is There a Business Case for Healthy Workplaces? (Panel Discussion)

The pandemic has heightened our collective awareness of the need to support employee health, safety, and well-being. Employers are witnessing unexpected behaviors from their current and formerly laid-off employees: reluctance to return to same work, work hours, level of pay, working conditions, and environmental stressors, and turnover rates never seen before. What will convince employers to create healthy workplaces?

Contents:

1. What is your concept of a healthy workplace? What does it look like, act like? What are you trying to create?
2. Why hasn't the evidence been sufficient to cement the movement toward healthy workplaces?
3. Given all you know now about employee experience during the pandemic and discussions about "the future workplace," do you think the needle has moved toward healthier workplaces compared to pre-pandemic thinking?
4. What do you think it will take to turn around employer reluctance to make the kind of investments in the physical and organizational workplace that will promote employee health, safety, well-being, and productivity?
5. Do you think there is any benefit to collaborating across disciplines to unify health and well-being strategies across business functions to create a healthy workplace infrastructure?
6. Any magic bullets?