Seven Things Employers Can Do To Address The Pandemic’s Impact On Workplace Gender Equality

Seven Things Employers Can Do To Address The Pandemic’s Impact On Workplace Gender Equality

Pandemic-induced restrictions in combination with extant gender inequities have caused many women to consider leaving their jobs. This is bad in its own right but also because businesses thrive on diversity. Check out these seven actions employers can take to address this problem.

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Robot Therapists

Robot Therapists

Psychologists and computer scientists have been working together to produce conversation artificial intelligence that play some of the therapeutic conversational roles that are typically saved for human psychotherapists (e.g., offering empathic responses and providing instructions on how to apply well-tested treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy). This post examines the benefits and limitations of this technology along with what it may look like in the years to come.

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Gamified Fitness: A Fad Or The Future?

Gamified Fitness: A Fad Or The Future?

In order to make working out easier, wellness experts have tried to make a game out of it. To determine if this approach to fitness can live up to the hype, Wellable analyzes the techniques that gamifiers have used and gestures at what the future of gamified fitness might look like.

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Pulse Check: A Crash Course In The Taxability Of Wellness Incentives

Pulse Check: A Crash Course In The Taxability Of Wellness Incentives

Every month, Wellable asks a single question to the large, growing, and dedicated community of human resources and wellness professionals subscribed to the Wellable Newsletter. The question for May asked respondents if the organizations they work for tax their wellness program incentives. With a divided response indicating a need for clarification, Wellable unpacks key issues and offers a simple decision tree for determining the taxability of wellness program incentives.

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The Pandemic’s Regressive Effect On Gender Equality In The Workplace

The Pandemic’s Regressive Effect On Gender Equality In The Workplace

COVID-19 has been exerting a deleterious effect on gender equality in the workplace, causing women to leave the workforce in disproportionate numbers and threatening to widen the gender pay gap. Wellable explains the significance of this trend and explores why the pandemic is having these gender specific effects so that businesses can more easily develop responses that effectively prevent further damage and undo the harm that has already been done.

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The Philosophy Of “Being Well”

The Philosophy Of “Being Well”

Philosophers have been studying well-being for thousands of years. Despite this, many wellness-focused employers are unaware of what philosophers have to say about what it is to be well. Learn more about the work that philosophers of wellness have done and ways in which philosophical insights about well-being should alter employers’ approaches to workplace wellness.

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Taking The Stress Out Of Stress Management: How Emerging Anti-Stress Technologies Stand To Make Staying Calm Easier Than Ever

Taking The Stress Out Of Stress Management: How Emerging Anti-Stress Technologies Stand To Make Staying Calm Easier Than Ever

By eliminating the need to self-monitor one’s stress levels, providing direct suggestions on how to de-stress, and even automatically activating stress reducing changes in one’s environment, emerging anti-stress technologies stand to take out the stress from stress management and make staying calm easier than ever.

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The Future Of Workplace Location Flexibility Policies

The Future Of Workplace Location Flexibility Policies

Based on their analysis of the merits of remote and in-person work, researchers at Avison Young are encouraging companies to permanently offer a flexible work arrangement which they refer to as the “multiverse of work.” Wellable takes a closer look at what this means and explains why companies should consider it.

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Diversity And Inclusion In The Workplace: Why It Matters And How To Cultivate It

Diversity And Inclusion In The Workplace: Why It Matters And How To Cultivate It

Creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace isn’t just morally praiseworthy, it’s vital for efficiency and profitability. This week, Wellable examines the business case for cultivating D&I in the workplace and offers four tips for doing so successfully.

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