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With the emergence of a hybrid workplace, creating and sustaining a more supportive, engaging and productive work experience for employees has become harder. The demand for employers to evolve how they invest in their people requires deep understanding about their people-related data and how they compare in the employer landscape. With such in mind, Sequoia, a provider of HR software and analytics, recently launched Dataforest by Sequoia, an online resource for total rewards and people policy benchmarking to help HR leaders measure their people programs and practices against industry trends. Dataforest provides a comprehensive set of timely employee experience data through interactive experiences, making it easier to discover and understand insights. Dataforest total rewards and people policy data is compiled from Sequoia’s annual Employee Experience Benchmarking Report, topical survey responses from people-driven businesses and anonymized insights from the company’s proprietary database. Users of Dataforest have complimentary access to the latest trends as they unfold on how employers are managing compensation, workplace diversity, DEI, remote work, employee turnover, benefits and more; a range of targeted insights on retirement, employee wellbeing, global mobility and special reports; and can participate in topical surveys and share how their organization invests in its people. “Business leaders need a way to quickly understand and stay ahead of workplace trends in this distributed work environment,” said Greg Golub, founder and CEO of Sequoia. “Dataforest is the community-driven instance of our people analytics and insights offering organizations with real-time data that can be used to inform people and business strategy.” Sequoia Launches Total Rewards, People Policy Benchmarking Talespin Raises $20M to Train Using Spatial Technologies Mental Health Tops Employee Wellness Trends for 2022 Talespin announced it has raised $20 million in funding to train workers using virtual reality and augmented reality — or spatial technologies. During the pandemic, Talespin said it learned companies are willing to pay for VR and AR training because it’s often cheaper than sending workers into real-life situations with expensive enterprise or industrial equipment. And because they can’t train people so easily with remote work conditions. Instead of building content internally, the company shifted to making tools for enterprises to build their own applications more quickly. Since 2015, Talespin has developed a platform to power the creation and distribution of immersive learning experiences in VR and AR. It includes CoPilot Designer, an authoring tool that lets companies and content creators build their own custom applications. The technology uses 3D virtual humans and environments to help people practice conversational skills and simulate jobs with realtime feedback and skills analytics. Trusted by organizations such as Accenture, AIA Hong Kong & Macau, Farmers Insurance, JFF, and 10 of the largest employers in the Fortune 500, the Talespin platform can accelerate learning, higher employee engagement and create more impactful upskilling and reskilling programs, the company said. Mental health programs are seeing a rapid increase in adoption and investment in the workplace as the COVID-19 pandemic triggers mental health conditions, according Wellable Labs’ annual “Employee Wellness Industry Trends Report.” Ninety percent of employers surveyed are increasing their investment in mental health programs, followed closely by stress management and resilience programs (76 percent) and mindfulness and meditation programs (71 percent). RESOURCES Source: Wellable Labs 8 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com

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