{"id":3075,"date":"2023-06-28T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T21:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cameronmacallister.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2023-07-24T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:58:58","slug":"new-realities-employee-wellness-and-organizational-culture-in-design-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cameronmacallister.com\/new-realities-employee-wellness-and-organizational-culture-in-design-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Realities: Employee Wellness and Organizational Culture in Design Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over the last several years, organizations and professionals in the design industry have searched for their \u201cnew normal\u201d amidst the disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic, the great reshuffle, and volatile social, political, economic, and environmental conditions. For many, a sense of normality or even stability has proven elusive. Many of our clients tell us they continue to worry about employee morale, mental health and wellbeing, and the health of their firms\u2019 cultures.<\/p>\n
We have heard from firms that have experimented with ways to address the situation, adopting hybrid work policies, introducing wellness benefits, and devoting significant time and resources to firm culture initiatives. Still, many employers continue to report that morale remains low while stress levels and the prevalence of mental health issues in the workplace soar.<\/p>\n
While anecdotal evidence on this issue abounds, there is little industrywide data available about how design professionals are experiencing the workplace today or about how organizational dynamics might be tied to social and emotional wellbeing at work. Without this evidence, firm leaders were left to guess at what might be happening industrywide and about how to best help their current and prospective employees thrive within their particular organizations.<\/p>\n
Cameron MacAllister Group and Lens undertook a national study on organizational culture and employee wellness in the fall of 2022 to address this gap. The full report can be downloaded here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n This study asked the employees of participating firms to answer a short survey about their experiences in their current organization and aimed to address several key areas of inquiry:<\/p>\n Analysis of data collected through the survey yields several key insights about employee health and wellness in the design industry today:<\/p>\n Taken together, these findings indicate that there are strong correlations between mental health and organizational culture in the design industry and that these links may be able to explain the ongoing patterns of burnout, anxiety, and low morale that firm and industry leaders have observed, even after introducing work-life benefits such as hybrid and remote work and flexible scheduling. To comprehensively address these issues in a time of ongoing disruption, firm leaders will likely need to invest in holistic yet flexible action plans that align firm and team culture, organizational strategy, and work-life policy and practices.<\/p>\n This study was a collaboration between Cameron MacAllister Group (Saskia Dennis-van Dijl<\/a>, Tina McGurk<\/a>, Tiffany Bergeron<\/a>) and Lens (Annelise Pitts). Overall, the survey garnered 2,750 responses from 57 firms. Respondents reported working in 41 states across the United States, three Canadian provinces, and several additional international locations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the last several years, organizations and professionals in the design industry have searched for their \u201cnew normal\u201d amidst the disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic, the great reshuffle, and volatile social, political, economic, and environmental conditions. For many, a sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"coauthors":[33,36,44],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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