Let’s be real. No one knows exactly how 2025 will play out for businesses.

Since the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, the rapid advancement of generative AI has significantly impacted the workforce.

Where we’ve been At meQ, we are pioneers in using technology and science to improve workforce well-being and performance outcomes.

Job demands, incivility, polarization, external stressors, and the challenges of AI will put extreme pressure on the workforce in 2024.

Ongoing economic uncertainty and transitions continue fueling workforce stress – but resilience offers organizations major competitive advantages.

Call center employees. Health care professionals. Government workers. Senior executives. These groups may look very different, but they have a common need.

80% of global enterprises agree that workforce well-being is important.

LIDBAIHT stands for “low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target.”  That’s how wikipedia–rather academically–describes workplace incivility.

Layoffs usually happen over a day or two, but the impacts can play out over months. Retained employees may grapple with anxiety from the sudden change and survivor’s guilt.

With COVID, we’ve experienced a major, global trauma that has changed every facet of our lives. Usually, when a big adversity ends, so does the psychological fallout.

We’ve been through challenging times before but in the last few years, we’ve been experiencing a perfect storm of stressors.

I had the opportunity to speak at this year’s annual Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal.