Inspire your team. Deliver results. Keep costs under control.

Those have always been top responsibilities for leaders and managers at work. But their job duties have grown more time-consuming and complex thanks to the stress of the pandemic, searing political discord, urgent social justice issues, geopolitical earthquakes, the Great Resignation and now recession fears.

Keeping employees focused and happy through it all – while striving to accommodate everyone’s scheduling needs, health concerns and personal obligations on top of their own bosses’ demands – has been … well, a lot.

“We’ve never been here, where the entirety of the workforce is experiencing social, economic and psychological change,” said attorney Claire Deason at employment law firm Littler Mendelson P.C., who advises clients on their remote work arrangements and the pandemic’s impact on the workplace.

That has changed how leaders – from the C-suite to middle management – think about work and what they really want in their lives.

C-suite blues

A recent survey of 2,100 respondents from four countries conducted by Deloitte and Workplace Intelligence found that “nearly 70% of the C-suite are seriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-being.” A large majority of executives (81%) said improving their well-being is now more important than advancing at work.

Meanwhile, in the first five months of 2022, global outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas found that 668 US-based...

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