Investing in your people is priceless. As leaders, we need to commit to investing in programs and efforts that can help ease the burden that employees have been carrying since the onset of the pandemic. Some efforts might include:

Coaching - whether in a group or one on one, digital or in person;
Offering abundant resources - a menu of options for your people to choose from as it relates to flexible work;
Offering flexibility - Encouraging flexible work schedules for all employees – rather than enforcing traditional work hours, normalize the option to log in when it best suits the employee or support breaks for exercise throughout the day:
Workshops - on a variety of topics such as "unplugging" or "caregiving while working" that support your people and with accessibility and well-being at the core.

Investing in these types of efforts takes significant commitment but will also reap tremendous rewards for both the company and employees. Research from 2015 shows that businesses lose $600 billion a year to workplace distractions, and that remote workers are 35% to 40% more productive than their in-office counterparts. In 2020, CNN reported on performance-based remote work statistics, noting "94% of surveyed employers report that company productivity has been the same (67%) or higher (27%) since employees started working from home during the pandemic."

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Organizations need to invest in flexible and inclusive work experiences that promote well-being

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