Music can improve employee productivity, mood and focus
Music is an easy and immediate way for employees to improve their mood and focus.
Healthcare benefits
Quit Genius is combating addiction in the workplace
Addressing drug and alcohol addiction needs to be a long-term strategy for employers.
Benefits Think Strategies to encourage remote employees to use wellness benefits
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.
Dr. Miles Varn
PinnacleCare
Blackstone invests in Ginger mental health app at $1 billion value
Demand for resources provided by Ginger, which connects users to behavioral health experts and services such as coaching via a mobile app, is surging in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spikes in anxiety, depression are hurting working moms
COVID, financial instability and a lack of child care are affecting working mothers’ mental health.
Benefits Think What employers can do about the threats to employee mental health
Mental health needs and disorders are the single most expensive category of health costs for employers of all sizes and across all industries.
Charlotta Winslow-Jenkins
ArmadaCare
Facebook offers paid leave to victims of domestic violence
As local governments have issued stay-at-home orders and shut down businesses to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the past year, cases of domestic violence have increased.
Coaching could keep your female employees from quitting
Workers need help focusing, organizing themselves and finding the resilience that they need to keep coming back every day to work.
The dos and don’ts of mental health interventions
Managers need to be cautious when approaching employees about mental health issues.
Benefits Think How to evaluate digital mental health solutions for your employees
Employers should not turn to telemedicine or other digital solutions blindfolded. They should carefully assess what they aim to achieve and how these solutions will help them get there.
Kristian Ranta
Meru Health
Employees are demanding greater mental health support
Managers need to be more vocal about their own mental health challenges to make treatment and support more accessible.
SAP offers employees paid mental health day to recharge
One-third of the company’s employees reported that they were struggling with high stress levels.
Remote work is lonely — personal coaching benefits can help
Remote work is taking a toll on employees’ mental health, but the right benefits can help.
10 companies with the worst employee burnout
An unmanageable workload, insufficient rewards, unfair treatment and a lack of recognition are just a few of the issues plaguing workers.
BetterUp employee wellness startup valued at $1.73 billion
During the coronavirus pandemic, reducing stress and anxiety has been a focus.
These guilty pleasures help benefits leaders maintain their mental health during the pandemic
The 2021 class of Rising Stars knows the importance of mental wellness, so they are indulging a few guilty pleasures during the pandemic.
Companies aren’t prepared to deal with employee burnout
Flexible work hours as well as expensing mental health and fitness initiatives are possible solutions to help struggling employees.
Employee mental health is improving but benefits are still needed
Employee well-being and focus is seeing some small improvements following December’s all time lows.
Best of the week: Time for a workforce mental health checkup
Employees are reporting the lowest levels of mental well-being since the start of the pandemic. Here’s how employers are responding with benefits and EAPs.
