Agenda

In an ever-changing environment, businesses are considering how to get back up and running quickly whilst encouraging customers to interact in the safest possible way. However, a wider set of challenges that companies need to consider include:

• MANAGING the wellbeing of employees and customers in new ways

• MAINTAINING operations through unprecedented disruption

• ACCELERATING the pace of digital transformation

The Vodafone Business / IBM venture can help businesses become more resilient. During this session, panellists will share examples of how both companies are managing the health and wellbeing of employees around the globe, discuss best practices, and reveal how our combined technologies can help your business.

Privacy policy: Vodafone Business

One in six UK couples face fertility challenges and nearly 70,000 IVF treatment cycles are carried out every year. This is a huge burden for many employees, having a detrimental impact on their emotional, physical and financial wellbeing. There is also a surge in demand for single people and LGBTQ+ when it comes to proactively taking care of their reproductive health.

And, at a time when employers are placing greater focus on employee health, HR shouldn’t overlook this crucial piece of the wellbeing puzzle. Therefore we are delighted to host a session that explores the organisational benefits of proactively addressing employee fertility challenges as well as providing inclusive and cost-efficient solutions for them.

Discussion will include:

• Why fertility and reproductive health in the workplace remains a taboo

• A case for fertility support in the workplace - why is now the time?

• How to take the first steps towards building a supportive, open dialogue environment

• How an inclusive and cost-effective approach to employee benefits can increase retention, reduce absenteeism and improve productivity in your workforce

Work-Life Blend is a big aspect of wellbeing, particularly for working parents. Recently, the scales have weighed down on both sides with an overload of working and schooling, all played out on camera during lockdown, not to mention the various new and normal pressures of the summer. How do employers help working parents sustain the next phase of the marathon, working around re-opening schools and emerging ways of working while delivering their workload in Q4?

Join us to learn:

• What have leading employers done during the pandemic to engage parents of all genders and what will come next?

• Gain direct insights from the thousands of working parents we coach and train each year at large, leading employers. What’s on their minds and what do they expect and want from employers as we move into Autumn

• Identify how to build a blend of no-cost and low-cost options as well as understanding the trends on larger programmes at a time when culture, purpose and engagement are at a premium, and many working families are exhausted.

Daniel Cave provides a short wrap up of the key themes from the day.