Health and wellness

Organizations navigating new working norms must evolve workplace strategies to help employees stay healthy, engaged and productive.

Two in five employees say their employer isn’t offering benefits or programs that support their well-being during the pandemic.

Mental wellness programs should be data-driven, not formulaic.

Whether to mandate coronavirus shots is a question a broad swathe of employers are grappling with.

Misty Guinn, director of customer advocacy at Benefitfocus, discusses the current state of employee benefits.

Forty-one percent of parents are not aware of the benefits their employer offers them to help with child care and other family support.

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.

Employees have increasingly been turning to their employers for support managing the stressors in their lives outside of work.

Employers can demonstrate support for sober employees by working with their wellness program providers to incorporate new programs, policies and practices within their workplaces.

“Pets really have a positive impact on people,” says Melissa Marshall, vice president of people and organization at Banfield Pet Hospital.

The “flexible hybrid work model” unveiled Wednesday lets employees choose to stay home for “heads-down work,” while coming to the office for meetings and team-building activities.

Employers need to embrace the fact that in the world of healthcare consumerism, choice is a good thing.

This is a long overdue attempt to tackle the common feeling of endless work days and constant surveillance.

The new service provides virtual and in-person care.

Shifting the attitude around work tasks and responsibilities can help employees feel more fulfilled and positive about their jobs.

COVID, financial instability and a lack of child care are affecting working mothers’ mental health.

The struggles of employees in the midst of the upheaval that has sent many out of their offices to work remotely are being overlooked by their managers and company leaders.

Mental health needs and disorders are the single most expensive category of health costs for employers of all sizes and across all industries.