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There’s a new hotel being built right next to where I now live in downtown Roswell, GA. It’s fun to watch it go up! I’m impressed by how organized and meticulous the construction process is. There’s a significant amount of support and infrastructure that’s being put in place before the scaffolding is set up for the next level of the building. That structural support is critical not only to ensure the long-term integrity of the building, but to allow the crew to construct each level at a time.
That is what many organizations miss during significant change. They treat employee wellbeing as something to restore once the dust settles, like a reward for enduring the transition or a priority to revisit when things calm down. Without realizing it, they pull out the supports while the building is still going up.
The evidence is hard to ignore. Recent research suggests that 89% of workers report meaningful organizational change in the past year… from new technologies and shifting roles to restructuring and evolving policies. Change, as they say, is the new normal. And that reality requires leaders to rethink what wellbeing is and where it belongs in the sequence of priorities.
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