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Companies should adopt strategies from across three different categories — screening and testing; workplace policies and design; and health and healthcare access when planning their workplace return.

Dr. Jon Leizman is chief medical officer at Premise Health, which operates more than 650 wellness centers in 44 states and Guam for some of the largest commercial and municipal employers in the United States, including companies like Quicken Loans, Discovery, and Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway company. He previously served as the medical director of Cleveland Clinic at Work, where he led business and medical operations for multiple worksite health and occupational medicine centers.

The pandemic is affecting one of the best perks of workplace retirement-savings plans: company matches to employee 401(k) contributions.

Employee mental health is vital to a company’s performance, but the pandemic is worsening wellness as time passes and long-term effects compound, driving more insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress.

David is the Co-founder and CEO of Lyra Health, a leading provider of innovative mental health benefits for more than 1.3 million U.S. employees and dependents, including organizations such as Starbucks, Zoom, Genentech, Morgan Stanley and Pinterest.

Maddy Simpson is a reporter for Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit Adviser. Contact her at madeline (dot) simpson (@) arizent (dot) com.

Daphne Ricken is Senior Underwriter Liability at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty based in Germany. Ricken has been working for the Allianz Group since 1991 in various roles and in industrial insurance for more than 19 years. From 2009 to 2013, she was an Executive Underwriter in the US Casualty Department in Chicago.

It won’t count as income to employees, but they also won’t be able to deduct it.

“I didn't want to have to work my way up. I wanted to start at the top,” says Aida Swanson, one of Employee Benefit Adviser’s Top Women in Benefit Advising for 2020.

Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits gradually eased last week despite a stream of business reopenings, underscoring the longer-term labor-market challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic.