Connection, technology, and culture

• 61% of desk-based workers would prefer to work from home more often after lockdown. How do you manage hybrid teams?
• Over half of people working from home reported that they have found it difficult to switch off. Whose responsibility is this: the organisation or the individual?
• How do large companies build a workforce around freelance, portfolio and part time workers?
• How can businesses maintain a high quality employee experience regardless of “where” employees may work?
• How do you build and maintain a company culture in an increasingly virtual world?

Diversity, Inclusion & Individual Differences:
The Journey

• How can you attract and engage talent from different walks of life?
• How can we improve assessment processes and make them more inclusive?
• How can we ensure employees are not just a number?
• The power balance has shifted: employees increasingly drive the decision-making process, but 26% of employees either think their managers are opposed, unaware, or undecided about diversity and inclusion, or don’t know how their managers feel.
• How can employers encourage and maintain high motivation?

Impact/Sustainability/Purpose

• Average year on year growth for B corps is 14% – 28 times higher than the national economic growth.
• Purpose enables cultural change as employees are more engaged in the process. What stops organisations from being purpose-led?
• How does being a purpose driven organisation influence employee engagement and morale? How can you build it into the employee offer?
• How do we align purpose with business strategies?
• How do we embed values and make social impact a fundamental part of practice while preventing cult culture?

Wellbeing stream

• 79% of employed adults commonly experience work- related stress and 43% employees lose sleep due to work-related stress. What’s the difference between stress and incompetence?
• 67% of employees feel less connected to colleagues than they used to. How can you ensure employees are not isolated?
• We know job security helps employees develop a sense of wellbeing. What impact will Covid-19 have?
• How can we look after employee wellbeing during the return to work?
• Employee habits and work environments affect employees.
• Wellbeing and their outputs. Is this the responsibility of the organisation or the individual?