Explore the macro and micro trends driving change in this decade, along with the impacts of massive disruptions like Covid-19 and climate change on the workplace.
This 83 page fully illustrated 3-part report explores the macro and micro trends driving change and the impacts of massive disruptions like Covid-19 and climate change on the workplace.
Contents
What’s inside this report
Part 1: The Sustainability Status
This decade was already set up to be one of great change even before the crises of early 2020. Transformation of the entire economy and social practices were accelerated by the global pandemic that swept around the world, wreaking havoc on markets, rapidly changing business operations, altering people’s lives and challenging healthcare systems.The Covid-19 crisis is emerging entirely new ways of working, living and doing business. But before this, the foundations for massive disruption were already being laid out for businesses, with several forces of change playing out, here we explore these.
Part 2: The Drivers of Change
Trends are driven by forces for change of which there are many influencing changes. In
exploring the megatrends and the disruptive shifts defining this decade, 12 drivers of change emerged demonstrating micro transformative forces shaping the way businesses operate and workplaces evolve.In this section, we explore the relationship between business and sustainability, showing the drivers influencing change as identified through our trend analysis. We explore how they emerged and what pioneering organisations are already doing to adapt to these influential forces, showing how Covid-19, sustainability, climate change, and the Circular Economy are affecting the workforce in multi-pronged ways.
Part 3: The Diagnostic Toolkit
This toolkit has been designed to help you assess your current sustainability and climate-positive journey so that you can take action.It helps establish where you are right now, supports your sustainability journey towards getting started or progressing further, and helps frame a strategy you can employ to enhance your sustainability and climate-positive journey within your organisation.
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