SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, nonprofit business Attire Effects Institute (Aii) opens its first get in touch with for applications for the Local climate Solutions Portfolio, a before long-to-launch registry of proven carbon reduction methods for the trend business. Aii will use the Weather Alternatives Portfolio as a facts-backed tool to deploy grants from the catalytic Manner Weather Fund, intended to increase $250M to de-danger and speed up demonstrated decarbonization alternatives, unlock up to $2B of funds, and assistance to halve carbon emissions by 2030. The Local weather Solutions Portfolio will also provide as a general public, transparent source for brands, retailers, sector stakeholders, and exterior industrial funding companions on the lookout to speed up decarbonization initiatives.
The first round of purposes, open now and closing March 2023, is centered on methods for materials, solution improvements, electrical power effectiveness advancements, and coal period out by using renewable thermal heat and renewable electricity, with subsequent, biannual rounds to be targeted on additional levers for carbon reduction*. To be eligible for the Weather Alternatives Portfolio, corporations of any dimensions and phase need to submit substantial high quality, verified information or estimates that display quantifiable reductions in greenhouse fuel emissions around their remedies by means of Aii’s demanding, strategically produced intake software.
“Some of the major business issues for efficient carbon reduction are identifying science-based alternatives, guaranteeing they are credible and prioritizing them for common adoption,” says Kurt Kipka, Aii Main Influence Officer. “Our intention with the Local weather Answers Portfolio is to complement our existing worldwide initiatives and come across, fund, and report on local weather effects solutions in a reliable, clear way – for equally our Manner Climate Fund and the field at substantial.”
Beginning in June 2023, a slate of tasks from the Local weather Alternatives Portfolio will start out to obtain grants, estimated to range from $50K – $250K for every yr, from Aii’s Style Climate Fund based mostly on efficiency, reach, scale, and value. This represents the initial deployed money from the Fund, which launched in June 2022 and now marks Target, PVH Corp., Lululemon, H&M Team, H&M Foundation, and The Schmidt Household Foundation as guide funders.
The intake application for the Climate Methods Portfolio was created by Aii’s new CSP Advisory Council of industry leaders: scientist and expert Linda GreerPhil Patterson, Taking care of Director at Color Connections Textile Consultancy Beth Jensen, Director+ Local weather Effects at Textile Trade Crispin Wong, Senior Director of Product Sustainability and Atmosphere from Lululemon and Mallory McConnell, Vice President of Corporate Obligation at PVH Corp.
In addition to overseeing the buildout of and sustaining the Local weather Options Portfolio as a useful resource for the trend marketplace, the CSP Advisory Council will guide the deployment of cash into new answers from the Manner Local weather Fund. It will faucet supplemental subject matter matter professionals as necessary to thoroughly and fairly evaluate applications.
“The Climate Answers Portfolio, led by our CIO and Advisory Council, is furthering Aii’s mission to identify, fund, scale, and evaluate the attire and footwear industry’s confirmed environmental influence remedies,” says Lewis Perkins, Aii President. “We feel this instrument will not only let Aii to ideal evaluate methods, it will also give the entire industry greater transparency into the local weather relevant systems at get the job done in the provide chain.”
Aii invitations all businesses, technologies, ventures, and answers geared at advancing decarbonization alternatives to utilize for funding and to be a part of the thorough registry that will be the Weather Answers Portfolio. The Weather Methods Portfolio will be stay to the public in July 2023, at which time Aii will announce its to start with funded methods by means of the Style Weather Fund.
Attire Influence Institute (Aii) is a nonprofit collective started in 2017 by NGO leaders: the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) and Normal Useful resource Protection Council (NRDC), along with market leaders Focus on Corporation, Gap Inc., PVH and HSBC. The group emerged organically as a result of a true will need that clothing brands and merchants self-identified.
Aii identifies, money, and scales demonstrated top quality remedies to accelerate constructive impact in the attire and footwear field. Aii programs target on locations that outcome in beneficial environmental effects from the manufacturing of clothing and footwear solutions to strengthen the sector. To master much more about Aii and its new Vogue Climate Fund, stop by apparelimpact.org and fashionclimatefund.org.
Cox Automotive will be the largest exhibitor at the annual dealer convention.
Team will showcase new products and solutions focused on improving retail transactions, solving inventory issues, and preparing for EV growth.
Dealerships deploying multiple Cox Automotive solutions are averaging 23{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} higher close rates, 63{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} more leads, and $187,000 per month more in profit.
ATLANTA, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — When the National Automobile Dealers Association’s annual gathering gets underway later this month, Cox Automotive will be showcasing a collection of new services and solutions to help the industry cope with a slowing market and consumers increasingly expecting a more digital, connected vehicle-buying experience. Cox Automotive, the world’s largest automotive services and solutions provider, will be the largest exhibitor at the show, held for the first time at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas.
The Cox Automotive display will cover more than 27,000 square feet of expo space and include the Power Up live stage, more than 200 demonstration stations, and 30 private meeting rooms. Lined up end-to-end, the LED display screens throughout the space would stretch across half a football field. The stand at NADA 2023 is Cox Automotive’s largest ever.
“With a challenging market ahead, we think it is more important than ever to be showcasing the many smart solutions we offer that can help dealers successfully grow their profitability and deliver the omnichannel experience consumers expect,” said Cox Automotive President Steve Rowley. “Now is the time for our industry partners to invest in the solutions that help make car buying more efficient for everyone.”
Smart Solutions to Make Car Buying Better
Recent research from Cox Automotive indicates that satisfaction with the car buying process declined in 2022 for the second straight year. Satisfaction with the car buying process peaked in 2020, due in part to widespread adoption of digital and remote car buying tools. High prices and limited inventory, however, have resulted in more frustration with both the market and the process.
“Cox Automotive continues to pursue new and innovative ways to help clients and consumers thrive in the age of digital transformation,” said Cox Automotive’s Chief Product Officer Marianne Johnson. “And our portfolio of smart solutions is backed by the industry’s most powerful consumer intelligence, vehicle intelligence and market intelligence.”
In 2023, Cox Automotive will be launching more than 20 new products and will improve existing products with more than 70 integrations to help provide better outcomes for clients who utilize multiple Cox Automotive solutions. Through the pursuit of continual improvement, the engineering teams at Cox Automotive plan to deploy more than 12,000 new features and product enhancements in the coming year.
At the center of the company’s broad portfolio of new and improved products is an expansive data intelligence engine that powers Cox Automotive’s broad ability to deliver valuable business insights, services and solutions to the company’s many clients and to the auto industry as a whole. DRiVEQ is the Cox Automotive data intelligence capability that is fueled by the largest breadth of first-party data in the automotive ecosystem – more than 2.3 billion online interactions a year. Working with 80 million leads and 20 million transactions annually, Cox Automotive works to build better products and actionable intelligence that drives better business outcomes.
At NADA, Cox Automotive will be showcasing new products and capabilities across three operational disciplines that are critical to client success. Those three focus areas are:
Transforming the Transaction
Optimizing Inventory Channels
Building EV Readiness
“With 200 demonstration stations available across our display space at NADA this year,” added Chief Product Officer Marianne Johnson, “I think we are more than ready to showcase how Cox Automotive products and solutions can help our clients thrive in any business environment.”
Transforming the Transaction
At NADA 2023, Cox Automotive will be showcasing an industry-first solution that will help make retail transactions faster, more personalized, more accurate and more consistent for everyone involved. Retail360 is rooted in the concept of the Power of One—one view of the consumer and car deal from one partner, creating more satisfying experiences for both car buyers and dealership personnel.
Retail360 provides a complete, personalized view of the car buyer’s journey and one deal workflow. It is a premium, upgraded retail experience that includes Autotrader, Dealer.com, Dealertrack, Kelley Blue Book and VinSolutions, guided by Cox Automotive’s first-party data insights and industry-leading capabilities. Dealerships who deploy multiple Cox Automotive solutions are averaging 23{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} higher close rates, 63{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} more leads, and $187,000 per month more in profit.
“Today’s automotive marketplace is more competitive than ever, where dealers are faced with scarce inventory, increasing rates, and buyers or trade-ins that are harder than ever to find,” said Lori Wittman, president of retail solutions at Cox Automotive. “Retail360 transcends this disruption so dealers can predict, reach, and convert potential buyers ahead of their competition and deliver less frustrating and more satisfying car buying experiences.”
Beta tests of the new Retail360 solution reveal dealers now can:
Know their customers better with real-time exclusive insights and deal intelligence
Get one view of the consumer, their past purchases, service history, lifetime spend, and current stage in their buying journey
See one view of the deal to manage profitability and streamline deal workflows to enhance the car buying experience
Stay on the same page with consumers with to-the-penny pricing, and one consistent experience
“Our individual brands have been delivering exceptional results for dealers for decades,” added Tracy Fred, senior vice president of dealer solutions at Cox Automotive. “Retail360 packages the power of these brands in a whole new way and comes to dealerships just in time to ease the business headwinds they face, as part of Cox Automotive’s promise to transform the retail transaction.”
Optimizing Inventory Channels
For much of the past year, ‘limited Inventory’ was identified as the top factor holding back business by auto dealers across the U.S. In the face of this challenge, Cox Automotive has been particularly focused on developing innovative solutions to help make inventory acquisition more efficient, especially as digital transactions continue to rise.
“First and foremost, our top priority continues to be making certain that the digital buying experience is as good as being there in person, as 75{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of Manheim’s transactions went to a digital buyer in 2022,” said Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions. “Our journey toward the industry’s best vehicle information accelerated with the acquisition of Fyusion and continues with even more enhancements that deliver clients the most comprehensive view of the vehicle in the industry.”
At NADA 2023, Cox Automotive and Manheim will showcase more advanced imaging capability with new Fyusion-powered fixed imaging tunnels (formerly known as gantries), as well as undercarriage imaging, which Manheim deployed at 39 locations in 2022. The undercarriage images are unmatched in quality, enabling clients to zoom in and pan across to visually inspect even the tiniest of details like the serial number on a muffler or even a small oil leak. Together, these imaging technologies will continue to elevate trust and transparency in the wholesale marketplace for each and every buyer.
At NADA, Cox Automotive will also be confirming new markets for the company’s Upside Direct sales model. Upside, a new approach to wholesale, has delivered more than $3 million in profit sharing back to clients since it launched in 2022. The new approach continues to demonstrate that dealers can generate revenue on every vehicle by leaning into the Kelley Blue Book Instant Cash Offer and Upside process.
Recognizing that dealers will need a new playbook in 2023, vAuto will also be demonstrating at NADA fresh enhancements to the company’s flagship solution, ProfitTime GPS. The new features and capabilities will help dealers evaluate and price inventory more effectively and ultimately help them execute a “Variable Inventory Management” strategy to ensure profitability.
The goal of vAuto’s Variable Inventory Management is to use Cox Automotive’s vast data to help strategically price each vehicle in inventory to optimize its ROI. Ultimately, by executing the strategy, dealers can make better inventory acquisition and pricing decisions and keep their inventory levels in check, which is particularly important in this unpredictable market. Using vAuto’s Variable Inventory Management strategy, dealers are able to understand each vehicle’s inherent investment value at the point of acquisition and ensure they are capturing all the profits they can, and should, with each vehicle sale.
“We’ve come to realize that a one-size-fits-all approach to a dealer’s used-vehicle inventory is not the ideal approach in today’s market; dealers are selling some cars too fast and too cheap, and holding on to other vehicles for profits that will never come,” noted Dale Pollak, founder of vAuto. “Thanks to better data science and market insights, we can now recognize each vehicle in a dealer’s inventory for its unique, individual potential to create a return on investment. That’s the core of the Variable Inventory Management strategy.”
Building EV Readiness
In 2022, battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs) sales were a highlight in a mostly down market, growing year over year by more than 65{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809}. In the year ahead, Cox Automotive is forecasting a milestone for the U.S. auto industry: One million EVs sold. New models with more range, faster charging times, and more appeal than ever are fueling EV sales growth in the U.S.
As the vehicle market shifts and evolves with more EVs on road, Cox Automotive will continue to invest in EV readiness. At NADA, Cox Automotive will be showcasing the next phase of its pioneering approach to EV Battery Health scoring and diagnostics that will set the foundation for the industry standard in EV battery inspection and valuation with the company’s VIN-specific battery grading system, built in partnership with Spiers New Technologies (SNT). The pilot of Cox Automotive’s new EV Battery Health mobile app and Bluetooth® dongle will launch at 10 Manheim locations across the U.S. in 2023.
“We take pride in our EV battery diagnostic tool and grading system,” said Lea Malloy, AVP of EV Battery Solutions, Cox Automotive Mobility. “Our independent, third-party standard for EV battery health diagnostics is unmatched in the industry.”
Unlike the grading systems of other EV battery diagnostic tools, which provide a general battery estimate based on make and model, Cox Automotive’s mobile Battery Health tool directly evaluates each car and provides VIN-specific information, which is vital in capturing accurate information around the health of the battery. The easy-to-use tool measures current battery condition, historical data (times, temperatures and types of charges) and performance, which the company’s patented health algorithm then uses to produce a VIN-specific battery score ranging from 1-5. That score, along with information on the battery’s current estimated range, is all included in the EV Battery Health Report.
“To meet the future growth of EVs at our Manheim locations, we’ve been investing in infrastructure and technology to service and support our clients’ future EV battery needs,” said Huang. “Creating a trusted battery health score supports our efforts to build an industry standard for battery health while delivering the type of vehicle information clients require.”
Cox Automotive is committed to being the world’s best battery health innovator and end-to-end EV battery lifecycle services provider, offering efficient and sustainable solutions that enable the extension of battery first lives and end-of-life reuse and pre-treatment recycling. The company’s global EV battery service network, operated in collaboration with Spiers New Technologies, has dedicated locations across the U.S. and Europe.
Cox Automotive and SNT’s breadth of experience and depth of knowledge is second to none in the advanced automotive battery pack services industry. Current clients include Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan North America, Porsche Cars North America, Stellantis, Subaru of America, Toyota Motors North America, Volkswagen Group of America and others. SNT currently works with more than 25 different vehicle battery types, which encompasses most global battery manufacturers, including LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Bosch, CATL, A123, Johnson Controls, and Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC).
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider. Fueled by the largest breadth of first-party data fed by 2.3 billion online interactions a year, Cox Automotive tailors leading solutions for car shoppers, automakers, dealers, retailers, lenders and fleet owners. The company has 25,000+ employees on five continents and a family of trusted brands that includes Autotrader®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital™ and vAuto®. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately-owned, Atlanta-based company with $21 billion in revenue. Visit coxautoinc.com or connect via @CoxAutomotive on Twitter, CoxAutoInc on Facebook or Cox-Automotive-Inc on LinkedIn.
Vibra Healthcare is partnering with the neurotechnology company MindMaze to offer digital neurotherapeutic tools for men and women with neurological issues both of those in the clinic and at home.
The initiative will begin with sufferers at pick Vibra hospitals in Kentucky and California.
MindMaze’s electronic wellbeing remedies aim to support people with Parkinson’s disease, stroke, traumatic mind injury, or spinal twine injuries regain purpose by way of digitally-enabled evaluations and behavioral teaching of motor, cognitive, and cardiovascular systems.
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The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven engineering platform — including resources these as MindPod, TOAP Operate, and Brain Vitals — can intervene with and evaluate neurological conditions, and observe and gauge affected person operate through extensive-phrase condition management.
“Vibra is dedicated to offering the best possible care for our sufferers and the most effective value for our prospects,” Brad Hollinger, Vibra’s founder, chairman, and CEO, reported in a push release.
“We strongly imagine that progressive know-how in AI is the pioneering route forward to radically strengthen individual outcomes in the most expense-successful way,” Hollinger additional. “MindMaze has amazed our workforce not just with the electrical power of their technological abilities, but also with their experience in deploying authentic-globe care pathways for individuals with stroke and other neurological disorders in countries all-around the planet.”
Practically 100 million U.S. citizens have a neurological ailment that can worsen around time. These kinds of problems burden the health care technique and account for nearly 50 {cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of the overall U.S. health care burden, in accordance to the push release.
Switzerland-centered MindMaze believes a multimodal technological tactic is required to tackle the increasing worries. Even though behavioral, cognitive, and motor interventions ordinarily assistance people with neurological circumstances, the use of technology could effectively lead to broader electronic health remedies that strengthen individual outcomes.
Research has shown that significant-dosage, superior-depth instruction can result in enhanced results in neurological disorders that are ordinarily challenging to deal with.
‘Redefining neuro recovery’
Tej Tadi, MindMaze’s founder, chairman, and CEO, reported the organization “is dedicated to redefining neuro recovery throughout the continuum of treatment by the improvement [of] evidence-driven answers for sufferers with critical neurological problems.”
“We are centered on furnishing clinicians with highly effective, digitally enabled, slicing-edge tools, even though also empowering individuals and their households with straightforward-to-use, engaging, and obtainable remedies,” Tadi mentioned.
Through the partnership, which kicks off what is hoped will be an expansive roll-out of MindMaze options, clinicians will be ready to present sufferers with in-clinic and at-home interventions “at dosage and intensity levels that are orders of magnitude greater than the recent regular of care,” the launch stated.
The goal is to acquire a universal platform to enhance patient treatment throughout a wide range of environments: in-affected person, article-acute, community sub-acute, and at-house.
The collaboration is anticipated to facilitate a “substantial” increase in the remedy and schooling of Vibra patients, as effectively as smooth and organized treatment transitions for Vibra Healthcare Method clients. The system operates and manages some 90 specialty hospitals and transitional treatment destinations in 19 states.
“Our services have persistently rated amongst the top-rated hospitals and rehabilitation amenities in the place, and we are always seeking for means to enhance on our incredibly substantial expectations,” Hollinger mentioned.
Tadi additional: “In Vibra we have discovered a entire world-course spouse with equally the determination and correct capacity to produce a phase modify in brain wellness as properly as significant advancements in affected individual results.”
Very last month, MindMaze initiated a collaboration with Mount Sinai Health and fitness Process to pace affected individual access to its novel neurotherapeutic program.
Working long hours and dealing with chronic stress can have a long-lasting impact on a person’s health and well-being. In this Special Feature, we look at the scientific evidence that overwork can negatively impact health, and find out what health experts have to say about this link, and how to prevent or address the effects of overwork.
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Working hard has been synonymous with success, especially in the workplace. While there is no denying there are benefits to hard work, such as personal development and inspiring others around you, the opposite can be said about overworking.
While the concept of overwork is not new, it reached a pivotal point during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, the move to work from home and required lockdowns led many people to begin working longer hours due to dissolving boundaries between work and home time.
A survey conducted by staffing firm Robert Half in 2020 found that 55{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of respondents who transitioned to work-from-home arrangements worked on the weekends, while 34{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} said they were working more than 8 hours per day on a regular basis.
The National Bureau of Economic Research also reported that the length of the average workday increased by 48.5 minutes during the pandemic.
The overworking burden during the pandemic was profoundly felt by frontline workers, such as healthcare professionals and emergency responders. Studies found that healthcare workers were at high risk for burnout due to their increased workload during the pandemic.
In May 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified burnout as an “occupational phenomenon” where a person’s workplace stress has not been properly managed. It can be characterized by:
feeling exhausted
feeling negative or cynical toward their job
reduced professional efficacy.
In addition to these detrimental feelings and consequences, a variety of research emphasizes the negative impact that overwork can have on health, overall.
As Dr. Adam Perlman — director of integrative health and wellbeing for Mayo Clinic Florida, and chief medical officer at meQuilibrium — told Medical News Today, while a person’s body and brain have an unbelievable capacity to be resilient and adaptable, they have their limits and need to be taken care of in order to be able to function well.
“When we overwork and fail to prioritize self-care, we don’t give the body or the brain what it needs to rest and recuperate,” he added. “Ultimately, that tends to lead to both physical and mental distress.”
One of the greatest concerns regarding overworking and burnout is stress. That is because increased stress has been linked to a variety of health concerns, from depression to diabetes, high blood pressure, and digestive issues.
Clinical social worker Iris Waichler explained for MNT that additional stress from overworking can increase the production of the hormone cortisol.
“This can increase risk for a heart attack or stroke,” she noted. “Increased stress on the body can also cause backache and neck ache and tightening of muscles.”
“Healthy nutrition can suffer if there is no time to eat at work or time to grocery shop or cook healthier meals,” Waichler added. “Additional time at work also means less time for relationships, exercise, and doing other things that can help you relax. Finally, additional stress can cause people to turn to alcohol or drugs to cope. Burnout can be the end result.”
Given that even minor stressors can impact a person’s long-term health, as a study from 2018 suggests, the impact of chronic stress exposure can be dire.
“When you are experiencing stress over a long period of time, your [‘fight or flight‘] mechanism can be constantly switched on,” explained Elizabeth Roddick, a U.K.-based pharmacist, and health advisor for women over 50.
“Ironically this mechanism is useful in times of danger [such as] when getting out of the way of a car. The sudden rush of adrenaline fires up your muscles, heart, and visual awareness, helping you to move at speed,” she said.
“If on the other hand, relentless stress is permeating your working life, maybe coupled with long hours without a break, then both your mental and physical health can be affected.”
– Elizabeth Roddick
Roddick gave MNT a personal example of work-related stress through her own experience running two pharmacies in Glasgow.
When staff members became ill and Roddick was forced to overwork, she contracted a throat infection, resulting in the inability to speak clearly for 2 months.
“This […] illustrates clearly how overwhelming stress can result in the manifestation of physical issues,” Roddick said. “And how, encountering many examples over the years of my patients exhibiting physical symptoms due to stress, it is vital for well-being to make sure stress is managed before it affects health.”
With overwork and burnout causing health concerns, one may well wonder how this may impact a person’s mortality risk.
The WHO reported an increase in working hours contributed to the deaths of 745,000 people via stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016 — a 29{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} increase compared to data from 2000.
The study also showed that those working 55 or more hours a week had a 35{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} higher risk for stroke and a 17{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} higher risk of dying from ischemic heart disease when compared to people who worked 35 to 40 hours a week.
While overworking is a problem around the world, authorities in Asian countries — especially Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — have expressed particular concern about this phenomenon. In Japanese, there is even a special term for this, “karoshi,” which means “death from overworking.”
What can employees and employers do to prevent overworking and burnout?
First and foremost, Dr. Perlman said, employers need to maintain open dialogue and lines of communication with their employees to truly understand the overwork challenges they may be facing.
“Emphasizing that employees should take time to rest and recharge and take their vacation days is a critical role for leadership. Stressing that managers should do their best to minimize excessive meetings and administrative burden is also important. In addition, frequent communication around available resources to support both mental and physical well-being that employees have access to within a company is critical.”
– Dr. Adam Perlman
Waichler also advised employers to address overwork issues and concerns by creating opportunities for mental health days, and family medical leave when health or other crises occurs.
She also suggested employers have someone that female employees, specifically, feel comfortable speaking with if they experience burnout symptoms, such as mood or behavior changes.
Studies show that women in the workplace experience a higher rate of burnout compared with men due to added home life responsibilities.
“Women traditionally balance more than one role in addition to their job,” Waichler explained. “That can include their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, etc. [Around] 65{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of the time women are caregivers in addition to everything else that they do. When you combine their work roles with all of their other life demands and responsibilities it is a recipe for stress and burnout. This scenario leaves little time for women to engage in self-care activities.”
As for employees themselves, Waichler advised paying attention to negative changes to one’s body, mood, and behavior, and to seek help when necessary.
She also suggested that “practic[ing] mindfulness techniques like yoga” might help relieve the stress. “Meditation and deep breathing can have a calming effect, lower heart rate and blood pressure, and alleviate stress in the body. Even taking a short break at work and doing some deep breathing can be useful,” she noted.
And Dr. Perlman advised employees to advocate for their personal mental and physical well-being as much as possible:
“Ideally, psychological safety should exist within a company such that an employee could speak with their supervisor regarding concerns they have around overworking and the impact it is having on their emotional and physical health.”
“Fortunately, administrators are increasingly aware of the toll that overworking is taking on their employees and, although not always the case, are more sensitive to finding creative solutions such as added flexibility around schedules and hybrid models of working from the office as well as virtually,” Dr. Perlman noted.
Ceille will aim endeavours on driving exponential growth with Montway’s company-to-small business clients
CHICAGO, May perhaps 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Right now, Montway Vehicle Transportation, one of the nation’s major 3rd-party logistics brokerages, introduced it has appointed Kaye Ceille to President, Small business Remedies Group. Formerly COO, Ceille’s new emphasis will be to develop Montway’s shopper base inside of its enterprise-to-enterprise segments – which include automotive dealerships, auto auctions, rental auto providers, automakers, loan companies, fleet management, and going and relocation clients – as well as offering 5-star activities for Montway’s employees, shoppers and provider partners.
Kaye Ceille, President, Business enterprise Remedies Team
“I to begin with joined Montway simply because it truly is a enterprise with a fantastic basis poised for ongoing advancement in an business going through transformation and disruption,” said Ceille. “My goals are to digitize our internal instruments to make improvements to interaction and visibility for all our stakeholders, innovate our merchandise and companies to get to extra consumers and push efficiency in our operation.”
Ceille’s new function and company device are portion of Montway’s management restructuring to concentration on certain buyer segments, positioning the enterprise to accomplish its explosive growth programs.
Not long ago named an Car Remarketing 2022 Women of all ages in Remarketing honoree, Ceille is an industry veteran with far more than 25 years’ encounter. She joined Montway as COO in April 2021, in which she was liable for driving effectiveness and innovation in Montway’s operations and acquiring new earnings streams via products progress and strategic partnerships. In that role, she introduced a point out-of-the-art client platform known as the Montway Automation Portal (M.A.P.) that supplies Montway’s automotive and corporate relocation prospects transparency on their transportation course of action and price, making it possible for them to greater deal with their inventories and give a terrific buyer expertise for their end-purchaser.
Prior to Montway, Ceille held several critical positions in the transportation and vacation industries, like President of Avis Funds Team and President of Zipcar, a world technological innovation and auto-sharing enterprise owned by Avis Budget Team.
“Despite the pandemic, Montway has doubled in measurement about a two-yr interval, and we you should not prepare to slow down,” said Dimitre Kirilov, President, Purchaser Products and services, Montway Auto Transportation. “Giving a five-star purchaser working experience is at the centre of every little thing we do. Kaye led Montway’s Logistics, Shifting & Relocation and Operations teams to file growth and gain in 2021, and her effective track history will be instrumental as we continue growing at a immediate tempo while nonetheless delivering most effective-in-class motor vehicle transport to our automotive and company relocation consumers.”
To find out far more about Montway Car Transport, remember to check out www.montway.com.
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In addition to a retail division serving the privately-owned car industry, Montway has a company remedies sector centered on the automotive logistics desires of enterprises in income, manufacturing, transferring and relocation, and finance. Montway Automobile Transportation sets the market common for revolutionary logistics systems and client assistance. www.Montway.com
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After 2 years of living with COVID-19, the physical toll of the pandemic is evident, in terms of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, but what of the mental effects? Frontline workers and young people have been some of the hardest hit, but no one has escaped the impact of the pandemic. In this Special Feature, Medical News Today investigates how the pandemic has affected mental health worldwide and asked experts how we might address this issue.
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In May 2020, the United Nations reported that stress and anxiety levels had risen substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, several waves of COVID-19 have left their mark around the globe.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”
Mental health issues occur when people cannot cope well with the stresses of life. A pandemic is a stressor that few might have envisaged having to cope with.
The fear of contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, together with concern about economic effects, has caused anxiety and stress.
Frontline workers, particularly medical professionals, have experienced burnout and chronic stress from the increased pressure.
Multiple lockdowns, physical distancing, and fear of infection have increased isolation, loneliness, and anxiety, all factors that, according to Lee Chambers, psychologist and founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing, are “massive catalysts” for mental health issues.
“Social isolation, loneliness, stress and anxiety, domestic abuse, bereavement, financial difficulties, unemployment and severe COVID-19 infection are all factors that might have caused people’s mental health to deteriorate.”
In 2019, a study in The Lancet reported that some 12.5{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of the global population would have an issue with their mental health at some time in their life. In March 2022, the WHO reported that worldwide, anxiety and depression increased by 25{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} in the first year of the pandemic.
Lee Chambers has seen evidence of this: “If I’m honest, from my perspective, the incidence of everything [mental health-related] has increased. […] It has been amplified for people who are already suffering with certain conditions. They’ve found less access to services and challenges in managing their everyday existence.“
He added: “One thing that continually got flagged was new incidences. People who had never previously identified as having any mental health condition had actually disclosed […] or, in surveys, said they were struggling significantly. That is interesting, as it shows the impact is reaching beyond those who were already impacted pre-[COVID-19].”
The beginning of the pandemic appears to have had the greatest impact on mental health. A report from the European Parliament Research Service highlighted increases in mental health concerns in many European countries at this time.
Eight out of 10 people in Italy reported a need for psychological care; in the Netherlands, over a third of the population reported anxiety.
Similar patterns became evident in the United States. In a study of people aged 18-35, 80{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of survey respondents reported significant depressive symptoms, while 61{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} reported moderate or severe anxiety.
In April 2021, the National Institute of Mental Health reported that rates for anxiety, depression, stress-related symptoms, substance misuse, and suicidal thoughts were almost double those expected before the pandemic.
In the United Kingdom, mental health referrals to the National Health Service (NHS) have reached record levels, as Dr. James told MNT:
“The pandemic has had a major impact on already stretched specialist mental health services, which received a record 4.3 million referrals during 2021. It’s also resulted in the largest mental health backlog in NHS history with at least 1.4 million people waiting for treatment.”
An analysis of more than 200,000 people in northern Europe found that younger respondents and those with previously diagnosed mental illness reported poorer mental health during the first months of the pandemic. However, mental health issues are not confined to these groups.
Sharon Greene, L.C.S.W., who specializes in treating anxiety and depression in children and adolescents of Providence Saint John’s Child & Family Development Center in Santa Monica, CA, told MNT of the pandemic’s widespread impact:
“I actually feel everyone has been impacted across the board in different ways. Of course, frontline workers and health professionals were at the forefront and may have experienced more trauma. We are only starting to understand the mental health impacts of the pandemic.”
Young people may be less at risk to contract a SARS-CoV-2 infection, but they have not escaped the pandemic’s effects. Disruption to education, work, and social interactions have all taken their toll.
In August 2020, the International Labour Organization described the “impact of the pandemic on young people to be systematic, deep and disproportionate.“
“Younger people […] are more likely to fall into negative coping mechanisms because they don’t have the experience and they live in a very digital world — that’s a challenge for them. Dealing with uncertainty when you are at that adolescent-adult transition is hard enough when everything is bright and rosy.”
– Lee Chambers
It is unsurprising, therefore, that a recent OECD report states that the “[p]revalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression has risen dramatically among young people and remains higher than pre‑crisis levels.”
For medical professionals, the pressures have been intense. Not only have they faced continued exposure to SARS-CoV-2, but they have also had to cope with the demands of their changing roles during the pandemic, which has inevitably taken a toll on their mental health.
A meta-analysis of studies into mental health effects of the pandemic on healthcare workers found that anxiety, depression, and stress were most prevalent among this cohort. Many healthcare workers also reported burnout, insomnia, fear of infection, and suicidal thoughts.
It is not just those dealing with COVID-19 patients in a hospital setting who have been affected. A global review of studies published in the British Journal of General Practice found high levels of work-related stress, anxiety, and burnout among primary care doctors in many countries.
Lee Chambers reported another issue among medical professionals:
“There is a real feeling of… I suppose the term for it is ‘moral injury,’ a real feeling that you are putting yourself at risk of disease. You are on the front lines really making the best of a crisis and then you’ve got certain people in positions of influence just doing as they please, having parties. […] That’s one of the things that’s really distressing a lot of medical professionals.”
The worrying impact of this is that many doctors may leave the profession. The British Medical Association found in a recent survey that 21{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of respondents were considering leaving the NHS, and 25{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} were considering taking a career break because of the stress of working through the pandemic.
In the survey, one GP expressed what may well be the views of many, noting that, “[i]f things don’t change in the next few weeks, I do worry that many colleagues will leave the profession, not because they have failed, but [because] the Government and the system failed them.”
Nevertheless, there are ways to help protect mental health through these challenging times. According to Lee Chambers, communication is key: “I look at resilience as expressive rather than suppressive, an ability to express yourself rather than trying to be robust and resist. Endurance generally leads to burnout […] Being able to talk and articulate and find someone you trust to express where you are currently at.”
He added: “Resilience is like a battery. The main ways to recharge it are the fundamentals — sleeping, nutrition, movement. For me, it’s trying to build those into your life.”
People should not be afraid to seek help and to recognize the warning signs that they may need help.
“Is it pervasive? Is it prolonged? And, is it something that is increasingly spiraling out of our control. At that point, we need to look to see how we can access professional services.”
– Lee Chambers
Dr. James echoed this advice, noting that “[p]eople who are struggling with their mental health can talk to their [primary care doctor] or self-refer directly to a local psychological therapy service.”
“No one should have to experience this alone — there [is] a range of options for support to get through this.”
– Dr. Adrian James
The pandemic has exposed gaps in support, particularly in some sectors of society. Lee Chambers made this clear: “So often a little bit of external support from our network can be beneficial. Not everyone has that; it’s a privilege.”
He added: “Inequalities have been opened up even further. We should look at navigating the challenges we face and attempting to make an equitable recovery, […] accepting that some groups have had it more challenging than others.”
Commenting on possible solutions, he said: “I would like to see more joined-up services, from education to medical to businesses to communities. If we could join the dots, it would make a massive difference.“
Dr. James stressed that these services must be financed properly: “It is […] vital that mental health services are backed by a fully-funded plan to ensure people can access the care they need.”
In a press briefing from March 2, 2022, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general further emphasized the importance of the pandemic-related mental health crisis, noting that it should be “a wake-up call to all countries to pay more attention to mental health and do a better job of supporting their populations’ mental health.”
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