Building Inclusivity Into Employee Benefits
While it’s a crucial step, experts say promoting an inclusive workplace entails more than offering benefits to different employee demographics.
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Plan sponsors are increasingly promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their benefits packages, a survey from Willis Towers Watson has found.
According to Willis Tower Watson’s “Emerging Trends in Health Care Survey,” four-fifths of the 446 employers that responded said they would take steps to promote DEI in their workplace culture and policies over the next three years, compared with 55% that took measures in the past three years. Additionally, seven in 10 employers indicated they would promote DEI-related aspects of their benefit programs and well-being programs throughout the coming three years.
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Employer efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in benefit programs expected to surge Willis Towers Watson survey finds social determinants of health hold increased importance in employer health and wellbeing strategies Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company Annandale, Virginia, UNITED STATES
ARLINGTON, Va., April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The number of employers that will promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their benefit programs and workplaces is expected to jump sharply over the next three years, according to a new survey by Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company.
The Emerging Trends in Health Care Survey found that four-fifths of employers will take steps to promote DEI in their workplace culture and policies over the next three years compared with just 55% that took measures over the past three years. Additionally, seven in 10 employers indicated
The Story of a Girl Child
Photo: Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo
There s usually a festive atmosphere in a household before a baby is born, with family members gathering and cheering in anticipation of the arrival of the new member of the clan, with sweets and whatnot at the ready. However, that laughter and happiness often fade when it transpires that the baby is a girl. The tragedy of her life begins with her first breath.
Let us imagine the journey of this girl child in our society against the backdrop of our sociocultural reality. As it is the month of Falgun now, let us call her, this hypothetical child, by that name. While Falgun may not be a real person, her experiences are shared by many. Falgun, like many other infants, is born underweight and premature, as one-fifth of the babies born in Bangladesh are. The neonatal mortality rate is 19.1 deaths per 1000 births in Bangladesh, while the Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey 2016 estimated 196 maternal deaths per 10