How the Role of the Employer is Changing

The Edelman Trust Barometer has long spoken of the shift in the expectations of CEOs and their roles in social justice issues, but we want to take it a step further.

With the news, the far-right is coming to power in Italy, that the value of the pound has plummeted and with the ever-looming hard winter we have ahead, the role of the employer isn’t just about paying a salary.

Employees are now looking to their employers to provide that level of stability and understanding around the issues they face.

With life becoming harder, this is where leaning into the differences between those at the top and those at the bottom has to be more than discussed. The question is what more can employers to do alleviate the burdens their employees face?

The employees that don’t have stocks and options and bonuses that are multiples of their salaries.

If happy and productive employees are the goal of an organisation, then creating stability in an unstable world is critical. This is by providing Clarity around what is possible in terms of support and removing elements of the unknown.

With Eurozone Inflation currently at 8.1% according to the European Central Bank (ECB) and similar rates in the UK (Consumer Price Index CPI) , which are set to rise in the short term, another question to ask if what had my organisation done in response to this?

If energy bills are going up, is this forcing employees to have to reduce their pension contribution? Is there a way to subsidise this for those who earn under X, each year?

These are the types of issues that organisations need to think about far beyond whether someone is working from the office or not.

An employers responsibility is also to react to societal change and crises and protect the people who give them a business.