Health and wellness

HR pros and benefit professionals shared their thoughts and advice on everything from mental health benefits to stimulus checks.

It is critically important that leaders recognize and find creative ways to overcome the not-so-virtual burnout to engage effectively with colleagues and customers, while also remaining productive.

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

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

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

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

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.

EAPs, yoga and meditation classes and access to free therapy are all ways to help your employees combat stress and anxiety from the on-going pandemic.

Employers with a robust spending account strategy will be better equipped to bolster employee savings and support other needs in 2021.

The pandemic has shifted employees’ desires toward more holistic well-being support, including help managing their emotional, social and financial health.

UPDATED: As COVID-19 vaccines begin to roll out, this is what an employer is allowed to require before employees return to work.

An employer group created guidelines to help HR support cancer survivors during the pandemic.

Starbucks, Dominos and Prudential are just some of the employers that made changes to their benefits during the pandemic.

More than half of employees report feeling lonely while working from home, which impacts productivity, job performance and retention.

A regular dental checkup is essential to detect risk of diseases in the future. But people often tend to skip, delay and miss their dental checkup appointments.

From COBRA premiums to long-term care, there are surprising uses for funds in these tax-advantaged accounts.

Employees may have trouble finding appropriate — and affordable — preventive and primary care once the pandemic winds down.

COVID-19 has led more employees to engage in dangerous drug and alcohol abuse. With a cost of $740 billion annually in lost productivity and healthcare costs, how can employers intervene before it’s too late?

Being distracted by everything going on can lead to an uptick in worksite accidents and other risks, as well as reduced productivity and focus.