Empathy & Employee Well Being Are At The Heart Of A Post-Covid World

2020 has been an emotionally difficult and challenging year. Across the globe people have lost family members, friends, confidents and colleagues. At the time of writing this article over 1.5 million people have died.

Employees have been pushed to the limit whether single parents, two career families, coping with elderly parents, or pre existing physical or emotional disabilities. The low socioeconomic demographic as well as women have been particularly hit hard. All this to say, no one has been immune.

Despite this devastation there is hope as we get closer to the distribution of a vaccine. With that, the economy will surge as employers will have a stronger platform to build or reshape their business model.

As businesses pivot with new paradigms they will need to pay exceptionally close attention to one salient variable. That variable is employee emotional well being. Once we have economic recovery it will be a buyer’s market. Employees will have choices. They will have opportunities to be highly discerning when it comes to corporate culture.

Employees spend more waking hours with their employer than their own families. Do we not owe in return a corporate environment where leaders are chosen for empathy and compassion? Surely profitability and empathy…