Elaina will present “The Great Resignation: The Good, the Bad, and the New Working Environment” at the Women’s Professional Workshop and Luncheon from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT on June 6. Sandra J. Guerra of Siemens Energy and Rebecca Hensley of CSX Transportation, Inc, will co-present. The event will be moderated by Kate MacGregor of NextEra.
Elaina is a Senior Principal Environmental Engineer based in Florida with more than 20 years of experience focused on a wide variety of environmental services including regulatory compliance and permitting, risk management, environmental due diligence, and contaminated site assessment and remediation.
In addition to Elaina’s lunchtime talk, Geosyntec will exhibit throughout the conference at booth 406 on June 6 and 7.
The conference is a comprehensive three-day event that addresses environmental technology and regulation, bringing environmental professionals, businesses, and organizations from around the world together for technical presentations, exhibits, and networking. The theme for 2023 is “Smart Growth: Rebalancing Development, Restoration, and Resiliency.”
The Air & Waste Management Association is a nonprofit organization that provides a neutral forum for information exchange, professional development, networking opportunities, public education, and outreach to more than 5,000 environmental professionals in 65 countries. The organization promotes global environmental responsibility and effective decision-making.
Discussion Summary
In 2021, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workforce started to experience an extremely heightened rate of voluntary resignation. “The Great Resignation” was a dramatic shift in the relationship between employees and their employers, with almost 50 million workers in the United States quitting their jobs in 2021. Women outpaced men by 1.1 percent overall, and this gender gap is even more significant where women are underrepresented, such as in STEM careers.
Specifically, the panel will discuss the following:
- The current state of the Great Resignation
- Impacts of quiet quitting
- Resignation versus “reshuffling”
- Opportunities and challenges created by these changes
- Personal accounts of the impacts to work and home life
- Impact differences based on gender
The discussion will end with the following questions:
- Where does our industry go from here?
- What does this mean to the new and upcoming generations as well as those heading toward retirement?
More Information
About the event: A&WMA ACE 2023
About the Air & Waste Management Association: A&WMA – Who We Are
About ONEIA: ONEIA
For consultation regarding environmental compliance, environmental consulting, and management at an environmental consulting firm contact Elaina at EModlin@Geosyntec.com.
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