Best Practices for Companies and Workers

The Unseen Teen: Amanda Lenhart The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People Kellie Owens READ FULL REPORT Best Practices for Companies to define and means different things to different and Workers people and populations, a one-size-fits-all approach to digital well-being is insufficient. [...] development process is not only the ethical thing to The technological underpinnings make seeking do, it will also lead to value-adds for users, is often parental consent onerous for online platforms, more profitable in the long term, and reduces the and the low-friction methods for verifying age are risk of losses from public relations and regulatory easy to circumvent. [...] If saying, ‘Hey, the stuff that we’re doing, the we could have that information more readily decisions we make have lasting impacts.’ available and shared more rapidly, I think that We previously kind of pretended that wasn’t would help all of the companies to be able to true, and now there’s no ignoring that it is in get ahead of some of these things.” fact true. [...] ● Rebuilding the way new products are designed and implemented to focus more “I think one of the reasons I personally specifically on adolescents and on digital love working in this space is that it’s not well-being generally, from beginning to necessarily competitive compared to other launch and beyond; product teams or other parts of the com- pany. [...] Within tech companies, many rance about adolescent health, and to shift power workers are looking for recommendations to build dynamics in companies so that workers have the and improve their approaches to adolescent and ability to prioritize and design for adolescent health.