Employee benefits

From diversity efforts to greater workplace flexibility, employees have high expectations for what their employer has to offer in the new year.

Papa helps employee caregivers by providing their loved one with companionship and help around the house — even during quarantine.

An employee may spend between $700 and $2,000 per year in veterinary bills to care for a healthy pet; pet insurance benefits can help alleviate this burden.

The acquisition is one of UnitedHealth’s largest and is another step in expanding the company’s health services business under its Optum division. The companies said the combination would help simplify services around medical care to improve health outcomes and lower costs.

Employees in non-health related professions who are at the highest risk of contracting COVID-19 include teachers and bus drivers.

Haven, the joint health-care venture between Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., plans to shut down at the end of February, a spokeswoman said.

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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.

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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.