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What’s happening: Gen Z workers are taking part in social media trends to vocalize their opinions on work and using popular hashtags like #QuietQuitting, #RageApplying, #QuitTok, #QuietFiring, #BareMinimumMondays and #ActYourWage. While seemingly lighthearted, these trends highlight important feedback that employers must pay attention to in order to build a resilient workforce.

Dig deeper:

• Building a resilient workforce helps organizations navigate future volatility - and the finance and technology industries provide good examples.
  • Ishita Goel, director, Talent Solutions at Aon, says, “What’s been interesting about banks is that they have started to think about workforce resilience as a holistic strategy rather than individual levers to action, which is starting to show a compounded return on investment for them.”
  • Meanwhile, the tech industry poses different learnings. “Tech was the employee’s choice as the place to work with its focus on employee engagement and wellbeing initiatives.” Goel continued. “Tech employers were essentially focused on building agility to continue their expansion and build belonging for employees. However, the recent turn of events has brought to light the need to build resilience.” Read more on Aon’s The One Brief.

By the numbers: Aon’s 2022-2023 Global Wellbeing Survey found that organizations are increasingly investing in the wellbeing of their employees. Of the organizations surveyed, 87 percent have at least one wellbeing initiative and 83 percent have a wellbeing strategy. Explore the findings in Aon’s press release and Benefits PRO.