The 21st-Century Employer Must Be a Steward of Public Health

 COVID-19 has spotlighted even more starkly the profoundly powerful link between public health and economic viability. Our new report, Employers’ Role in the COVID-19 Environment: Winning in the Vastly Changed World of Work, highlights the unique convergence between the megatrend of aging and the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace and offers insights to inform employers’ public health and workforce strategies at this intersection. It draws on over a decade of work to define considerations and best practices for employers’ role in healthy aging.

Chief among the report’s findings is the guidance to all employers “to elevate public health as a central feature of their culture and embed it into management”.

For employers, the pandemic increases the importance of understanding changes in the length and trajectory of careers, what flexibility regimens are emerging and, not incidentally, enabling the positive link between work and health. 

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