By Patricio V. Marquez and Sarah Eyman As the COVID-19 vaccination drive intensifies in the rich world, progress in low- and lower-middle-income countries lags far behind due to limited access to vaccines. As of mid-June 20201, about 21.8% of the world’s population, or 1.71 billion people, had received at least their first dose of one of […]
Good Health is Good Business Congratulations to the 8th Global Healthy Workplace Awards winners for showing outstanding achievement in promoting a safe and healthy work environment complementary to the business performance of the organisation. Awards winners will be featured as part of a twelve month global healthy workplace promotional program which involves high profile networking […]
Awards Finalists’ workplace health programmes will be presented at 8th Global Healthy Workplace Awards & Summit on 19-20 November 2020. We are delighted to announce the six finalists for the 8th Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit have now been decided. The 2020 Finalists for the prestigious Awards are: Multinational Category GSK (UK) HSBC (UK) […]
GCHW/IES May 5 Webinar Summary The coronavirus COVID-19 crisis has heralded a massive shift in working patterns for many employees across most of the developed world. The impact on employee health and wellbeing is not fully understood yet. However, the current Institute for Employment Studies (IES) Working from Home Wellbeing survey gives us a first glimpse. […]
As most employers are taking a cautious approach to reopening workplaces it is clear that remote work remains widely prevalent. Many human resource (HR) experts agree that these accommodations will be made permanent for some of the workforce which were not working from home before. Naturally, remote work is contingent on the specific industry and […]