R3c ECI Data and Analysis

About R3c Emotional Comfortability Index (ECI)

The R3c Weekly Emotional Comfortability Index (ECI) is a measure of stress using a proprietary algorithm and incorporates both internal and external data sets. These include economic indicators, personal stressors, COVID-19 stressors, executive stressors, workplace violence and threat responses, and Disruptive Event Management (DEM) response data.

The data is aggregated by state and is used to assess the potential organizational, behavioral, security, and crisis support needs based on workplace locations.

Week of 10/16/2020 Analysis

As expected, there was a significant shift this week toward political stress. Other recent stressors remained relatively consistent with unemployment, schools, the wildfires, and COVID-19.

The week is demonstrating a transitional stress with COVID-19, while political stress and school stress remained high.

With COVID-19, rather than an aggregate stress related to the coronavirus itself, there were three stressors that are somewhat synergistic but specific in terms of geography. Some locations such as Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska are showing a higher intensity of stress as it relates to generic symptoms.

A more specific symptom of fever seems to be of greater intensity in locations such as Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Other locations have an increased focus on the hospitals themselves, such as New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Connecticut.

Finally, there are specific locations appear to have surpassed certain thresholds related to crisis and requiring increased responses. Pennsylvania is not only showing a high level of total stress, but it is also trending higher in the number of crisis responses and executive support requested. A second location where responses are showing an increase is Virginia and may be an early warning indicator for the near term intensification of aggregate stress.

Week of 9/30/2020 Analysis

As expected, there was a significant shift this week toward political stress. Other recent stressors remained relatively consistent with unemployment, schools, the wildfires, and COVID-19.

The political stress appears to be consistent, regardless of party affiliation, with the intensity higher in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia.

The number of simultaneous risks continue to remain a concern in the ability for individuals to enhance their adaptive capacity. A number of lower level stressors will likely increase in the near term to join those listed above, to include the flu and civil unrest.

The R3 Continuum responses are mirroring the changing environment with New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, and Wisconsin showing increases in requests for Disruptive Event Management services.