How this startup helps minorities reach financial wellness
As communities begin to build back their finances after the pandemic, this company wants to close the gap in equitable lending.
Employee benefits
UnitedHealthcare takes on hearing loss with new benefit
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how people interact with their benefits, their jobs and their medical needs.
Quit Genius is combating addiction in the workplace
Addressing drug and alcohol addiction needs to be a long-term strategy for employers.
Benefits Think Strategies to encourage remote employees to use wellness benefits
Making it easy and rewarding for remote employees to take part in wellness programs builds a sense of belonging and can also have a positive impact on the employees’ physical and mental health and well-being.
Dr. Miles Varn
PinnacleCare
Blackstone invests in Ginger mental health app at $1 billion value
Demand for resources provided by Ginger, which connects users to behavioral health experts and services such as coaching via a mobile app, is surging in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 16 most popular employee perks
Employees have increasingly been turning to their employers for support managing the stressors in their lives outside of work.
Benefits Think Sober-curious movement enters the workplace
Employers can demonstrate support for sober employees by working with their wellness program providers to incorporate new programs, policies and practices within their workplaces.
Cheryl Brown Merriwether
ICARE
Employees are expecting more pet friendly offices post-COVID
“Pets really have a positive impact on people,” says Melissa Marshall, vice president of people and organization at Banfield Pet Hospital.
Education could be the key behind employee retention
Employees are more confident at work and more loyal to their employer when their tuition and fees are subsidized.
Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds want to solve telehealth inefficiencies
“We can see a future where over the next 10 years, most healthcare interactions will be online,” says Robin Glass, president of Doctor on Demand.
On-Demand Web Seminar Why a communication strategy is no longer optional for benefits consultants (and the tools that can help)
2020 changed nearly everything about how benefits consultants communicate with their clients and employees. And while on-the-fly tactics may have worked last year while we were adjusting to the “new normal,” we need to prepare with purpose in 2021.
Over 190 U.S. companies urge Congress to pass paid family leave
The memo calls for Congress to work with the White House to include permanent paid leave in the $3 trillion “Build Back Better” recovery plan the Biden administration is preparing to roll out.
Spikes in anxiety, depression are hurting working moms
COVID, financial instability and a lack of child care are affecting working mothers’ mental health.
WINFertility partners with law firm on family planning benefits
Demand for fertility benefits is rising as more employees delay starting families.
Benefits Think What employers can do about the threats to employee mental health
Mental health needs and disorders are the single most expensive category of health costs for employers of all sizes and across all industries.
Charlotta Winslow-Jenkins
ArmadaCare
Employers must reach beyond retirement with their benefits
Financial wellness requires more than a typical 401(k) benefit.
Best of the week: Employees are turning their backs on employers
Employees are looking for new jobs and leaving the workforce in record numbers. How can you get them to stay?
Voya tool simplifies supplemental health benefits
Supplemental health benefits can be a key component to employee wellness.
Facebook offers paid leave to victims of domestic violence
As local governments have issued stay-at-home orders and shut down businesses to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the past year, cases of domestic violence have increased.
