Women have been impacted more negatively by the COVID-19 crisis than men, according to a McKinsey/LeanIn.Org study on women in the workplace published in September. Women are more likely than men to have been laid off or furloughed, the study found, and as the boundaries between work and home have blurred, more than 1 in 4 women have contemplated downshifting their careers or leaving the workplace entirely.
Compliance Week set out to see if comparable findings existed for women working in the compliance space as well as whether the opposite could be true: that perhaps men in compliance were feeling the pain of the pandemic more acutely than their female counterparts. Or maybe our research would find gender was not a determining factor at all; that men and women shared equal helpings of employee stress and burnout in 2020. Compliance Week and Skillsoft jointly launched a survey, “What’s your back-to-office plan, and does it work for you?” to explore all three possibilities.
