Healthcare benefits

Addressing drug and alcohol addiction needs to be a long-term strategy for employers.

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.

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.

The new service provides virtual and in-person care.

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

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.

Workers need help focusing, organizing themselves and finding the resilience that they need to keep coming back every day to work.

Managers need to be cautious when approaching employees about mental health issues.

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.