Employee benefits

With access to in-person support limited during COVID, digital treatment platforms like Quit Genius can help employees with drug and alcohol addictions seek the help they need.

Although it shows promise for reducing unnecessary healthcare spending and costs, and for improving decision making without adverse effects on clinical outcomes, shared decision making adoption has not been widespread.

Whether it’s because they have COVID-19 themselves, are worried about getting it or are taking care of someone who already has it, the number of workers who’ve missed days on the job has doubled in the pandemic.

The large self-insured healthcare provider network added new regions and partnered with programs to help consumers cope with quarantine challenges.

“The pandemic has laid bare the widening gap between the financially secure and insecure in this country,” says Yanela Frias, president of Prudential Retirement.

Your guide on how employers can best support working parents from Employee Benefit News’ top stories of 2020.

More than 60% of employees plan to work during the holidays because of COVID-19 anxieties, which will lead to burnout.

Employees are more likely to remain with their current employer if they offer a student loan benefit.

During times of social change, there is the potential for people to be exposed to events that register in a person’s brain and body as trauma. The negative affects can accumulate and have an impact on a person's work and well-being.

The average American full-time employee earned 23 paid days off a year, but only used 17 of them. That’s six days of PTO left on the table — the equivalent of handing a week’s salary back to your employer.

The pandemic forced many companies to allow employees to work from home, which created new challenges for employers and their workforce.

The pandemic has highlighted how a permanent or semi-permanent work from home model can still produce a productive workforce, especially among working parents.

In addition to maxing out your 401(k) and 529 savings plans, add to your health savings account and make year-end charitable donations.

Corporate catering provider ZeroCater launched a new personalized digital cafeteria to provide healthy meal options for remote employees and other essential workers.

The majority of American workers are facing meaningful financial challenges and are at significant risk for making financial decisions they are likely to regret.

From nutritional programs to maternity care and transgender benefits, employers and benefit providers got creative with one of the most essential benefit offerings.

If the federal government embraced the model of states like California and Oregon, as many as 40 million more workers might start saving, researchers say.

Fortunately, there’s a silver lining to this year’s unprecedented demand for mental healthcare: increased awareness and acceptance of mental health issues, even in the workplace. But, there’s more we can do.

Even the cutthroat world of banking is starting to recognize the potential advantages of giving people a break, whether that’s someone trying to juggle family commitments or someone who just feels burned out.

Through the end of the first quarter, workers will be reimbursed $75 or $100 a day to pay caregivers, depending on the employee’s compensation.