We tackled a variety of important topics to help employers empower their workforce. Editor Lee Hafner reports that employees are skipping lunch because they fear not having enough time in the workday to complete their work or because they say that too much time is being eaten up by meetings. But it’s important, she reports, for employers to encourage their workers to refuel—both physically and mentally—during working hours.
DEI is under attack, reports Deanna Cuadra, our senior reporter. But she cautions against thinking that these initiatives are dead; instead they are being transformed. According to The Conference Board, a non-profit business research organization, only 9% of executives plan on scaling back external DEI communications, and just 3% plan to scale back internally. In other words, most employers are either keeping their programs intact, or even expanding them.
