With 2,300 employees spread across 22 locations in five states, launching new benefits at Pepsi Bottling Ventures isn’t an easy task. But the company, which bottles and distributes Pepsi products, achieved what DeeAnne Watson, compensation and benefits manager, calls an “easy win” when it implemented a telehealth service through Teladoc four years ago.
“Our employees are primarily on a production line or driving a truck, delivering products to stores,” she explains. “A lot of them have timelines, and when an employee’s on a truck, they can’t take an hour off to go see a doctor. That causes a lot of them to either go to an emergency room or use an urgent care facility.”
