WORK TRENDS IN 2022

1. Prioritizing employee wellbeing with expansive health offerings 

The new offerings to new and old workers will focus on precision and performance-based health and mindset wellness. The old-school insurance game of “These are your benefits with X amount for deductibles” is not a big lure to the next generation of workers. 

Newer care will focus specifically on their needs for physical, mental, and spiritual support. 

2. Addressing employee retention rates, burnout, and turnover 

Employee retention, burnout, and turnover are high in all facets of the workforce. The last two-plus years of dealing with Covid19, lockdowns, relegation to working from home, and limited ability to vacation have increased the overall stress on the workforce, particularly in the upper ages of Generation X and millennials.

Some of the measures to prevent burnout are:

• Decreasing hours per week worked while paying as if full-time may increase productivity and improve the mental and physical health of the staff. 
• Offering more mental and physical health days and alternative therapies as benefits packages helps retain employees and boost recovery from burnout and turnover.
• Activities such as increasing movement during the workday, standing/sitting desks, installing fun rooms or asking the workers what they would like to do, allow employees to feel involved with their fellow workers and part of the decision-making process for the office.

3. Organizations need to be prepared for turnovers.

Each position in the company needs to have recorded how-to’s. If an employee leaves, another can be quickly trained to do their job daily, or that position can be cross-trained to fill in the gaps until someone is fully trained from the video training.