4 well-meaning, but terrible, responses to worker trauma

Presented by   It’s been a tough year, following a tough year. Whether it’s COVID, police brutality, or gerrymandering that’s keeping you down, I don’t know anyone who feels 100% when they show up at work right now. To try to help us cope, many workplaces have handed us meditation app subscriptions and a few extra days off. But according to Vivianne Castillo—who founded a startup called HmntyCntrd to battle trauma in the workplace—these offerings can actually be part of the problem. They’re just another way that your company convinces you to suck it up and get back to work, feelings be damned. In her new report that involved dozens of employee interviews, Castillo breaks down the four most common ways workplaces perform empathy, only to exert more capitalistic control. And while most of us would agree that some gesture can be better than no gesture, her arguments may change your view.  Read my story here. — Mark Wilson   4 clueless ways companies are responding to workers in crisis A new survey breaks down how even well-meaning organizations are dropping the ball during COVID-19.   READ MORE   Forget batteries. This 100-year-old technique provides cheap energy storage for wind and solar power Pumped hydro is a solution in plain sight. And the U.S. is brimming with potential.   READ MORE   The $50 billion plan to fight wildfires could be a surprise boon to the building industry One side effect may be a huge infusion of ecologically harvested wood into the supply chain for building materials.   READ MORE   Can innovative design get us out of the mess it helped create? As applications open for the 2022 Innovation by Design Awards, we take a look back at last year's winning companies and organizations.   READ MORE

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