Employee productivity

Both employer clients and CVS employees will have access to an app that helps people manage their anxiety and stress.

To stave off burnout and avoid a year-end vacation crunch, employers need to encourage workers to use their time off.

Around 20% of employers don’t plan on offering caregiving benefits. Here’s why they should reconsider.

Executive coaching can help female employees with professional development, and maintain mental resilience during COVID-19.

Providing employees with rewards throughout the year can reduce turnover and boost engagement and performance.

Employers should embrace their critical role in stemming productivity loss. Start by taking a fresh look at your benefit packages.

The insurance companies plan to launch a new health plan in Q4 to help employers recuperate from COVID-19 losses.

Tech companies are leading the way on allowing employees to work from home permanently. The model is starting to take hold in other industries as well.

Out of the employees surveyed in the U.K., the U.S., Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, those in the U.S. are the most likely to lie to their employer about their reason for taking a sick day.

Corporate messages and social media outreach may be well intended, but diversity experts say companies need to do more to support Black employees in a time of crisis.

Most of the firm’s professional assistants and “select professional staff” will move to a shorter work week and will see compensation reductions.

The pandemic highlights why employers must have well-defined core values and communication strategies.

If you’ve been missing your office these past eight weeks, that feeling of dislocation may not dissipate even if you return to HQ. No matter what your office looks like, it will feel very different.

Employers have a responsibility to educate themselves and their employees about the value workers with intellectual disabilities can bring to their organization.

Many companies are realizing that the open office — once considered forward-thinking for the way a lack of separation between workers fosters collaboration— is unsustainable.

In times of crisis, don’t neglect social health as part of employer mental health planning.

While some employees have increased their productivity through remote work, others may be negatively affected due to a lack of physical oversight by supervisors.

“After my husband died, I couldn’t even tie my shoes,” says Emma Payne, founder of Grief Coach. “The fact that I was expected to go back to work was unthinkable.”

The results of this large-scale work-from-home experiment, and its lingering hangover, show that there's a need for greater trust between executives and employees, and that productivity can’t simply be measured in terms of hours.