Wellthy launches teen helpline to help parents address mental health needs
Connecting families with accessible resources and care can help them stay ahead of their children's mental wellness.
Mental health benefits
A recipe for resilience: How Zendesk is helping employees manage their stress
A well-rounded set of mental wellness offerings and efforts is helping employees maintain a healthier life in and out of work.
How to support employees who are struggling with their mental health
Dr. LaToya Smith reveals how employers can identify troubling signs that employees are struggling with their mental health — and what they can do to help.
Benefits Think A good kind of quitting: Addressing nicotine use in the workplace
Benefits managers who connect quitting tobacco and reducing stress have a promising opportunity to make a difference for their employees, ultimately minimizing stress for the entire team.
David S. Utley
Pivot
Benefits Think Decreasing barriers to employee mental health care engagement
Employers working to provide competitive, helpful benefit plans have the additional important task making those plans easy for their employees and dependents to sign up for and use.
Nicole Stelter
Blue Shield of California
Benefits Think Getting employees to take advantage of corporate wellness offerings
More than half of U.S. workers say they haven't taken advantage of their mental health benefits, and more than 10% are unaware of these benefits.
Dr. Molly McAllister
Banfield Pet Hospital
BFFs with your boss: The pros and cons of work friendships
More than half of employees say their work friendships make their job more enjoyable.
Bank of America offers up to six weeks paid sabbatical for longtime workers
Beginning next year, the bank will offer time off to let employees "reinvest in their priorities in life."
Benefits Think How EAPs are turning to technology to support employee mental health
Self-scheduling appointments and downloading meditation apps to engaging in digital self-help platforms are all ways EAPs are adapting to a virtual-first world.
Kathleen Greer
KGA
Excellence in HR: Ocean Spray’s Susan French is tackling the stigma around mental health
Susan French, head of global total rewards at Ocean Spray, has made it her mission to tackle barriers to care.
Benefits Think Work stress is threatening to our health. Here’s how I fight it
Work stress is more normalized than ever before, and companies need to put policies in place that protect employees' mental health and prevent burnout.
Conner Burt
Lessonly by Seismic
Benefits Think The invisible and isolated caregiver
"I spent decades as my mother's caregiver and while many moments were intensely gratifying and special, there were many moments that were devastatingly lonely, isolating, and traumatizing," writes Wellthy CEO, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner.
Lindsay Jurist-Rosner
Wellthy
Take a breath: How to use meditation to find balance at work
Meditation has physical and mental health benefits that can improve employee well-being. The founder of Create Meditation shares his best practices.
A third of employers still aren’t offering mental health benefits — are brokers to blame?
HR leaders are struggling to do it all, especially when it comes to supporting employee mental health. A good benefits partnership could help ease the strain for everyone.
The Netherlands makes working from home a legal right
The new legislation makes the Netherlands one of the first countries to grant remote working flexibility by law.
How to destigmatize ADHD in the workplace to improve productivity
Only 4.4% of adults have ADHD, yet the diagnosis can be damaging to their career prospects and performance at work.
Benefits Think How to build a trustworthy benefits program
Amidst increasing uncertainty driven by the pandemic, employers need to find new ways to build trust with employees around their benefits.
Veer Gidwaney
Maxwell Health
AI may be the mental health solution your employees need
When talking to a manager about stress and anxiety isn’t enough, artificial intelligence can offer a solution for support.
Benefits Think 7 best practices for implementing a successful mental well-being strategy
A solid strategy will spell out a detailed plan for deploying multiple mental or behavioral health solutions across a workforce, based on resources that have been — or will be — purchased by the organization.
Kathleen Greer
KGA
Benefits Think An inside view into how digital clinics for addiction work
While there are slight variations in programs depending on whether they are focused on tobacco, alcohol or opioids, here’s an inside view of how they work and what the patient might experience.
Yusuf Sherwani, M.D.
Quit Genius