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You may know that workplace harassment remains a significant risk to organizations, challenging leaders to take new measures to protect both their employees and their organizations. But did you know that corporate boards have an essential role to play as well?

Effective bystander intervention is more accessible said than done, so your decisions around your training options become critical.

Storytelling is an ancient art that has endured through the millennia because it has the power to capture the imagination, demystify complex issues and create meaningful connections between people with different experiences, insights and perspectives.

According to a recent survey by employee feedback management platform All Voices, 44% of full-time workers experienced harassment at work in the form of personal harassment and bullying, discriminatory harassment and bias, or online harassment and cyber bullying. Further, 48% have witnessed others experience harassment at work, 52% have not felt psychologically safe at work and 34% left a job because of unresolved harassment issues.

Bain & Company recently released a report after surveying 10,000 individuals across diverse industries and demographic backgrounds, in seven countries, at all levels of seniority and organizational size—to learn what makes employees feel most included.

The number of job openings was little changed at 11.3 million on the last business day of February, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires edged up to 6.7 million while total separations
were little changed at 6.1 million.

For companies to attract, retain, and grow the talent that will bring them sustained success, they need to fine-tune — or overhaul — their culture to meet the expectations of
professionals to be seen as human beings first.

An acute labor shortage, a scarcity of skilled talent to meet the demands of the future, along with an unprecedented exodus of labor, dubbed the “Great Resignation” has made 2022 a year where recruitment and retention require a new focus and approach.

These priorities for the human resources function are key to enabling success for the business as a whole. Most HR leaders say that improving operational excellence will be critical in 2022, and far more than in prior years report that executing business transformation will be a major focus.

Employees are now starting to ask human questions about the work they perform. Why am I doing this? What is it for? How can we do it better? Many are choosing to leave their jobs. The competition to attract new talent is growing fiercer than ever.