Wellness

A person will die by suicide every 20 seconds this year. Employers can be on the front lines to offer a lifeline to struggling employees.

After months of remote work, workers are reportedly feeling less connected and companies are struggling to prevent “work-from-home fatigue”.

While remote work has presented challenges to productivity and mental health, there are ways to improve your workspace and routines to feel more focused.

Even among those employers that workers say handle work-life balance best, adapting to the work-from-home world has been a struggle.

Employers should embrace their critical role in stemming productivity loss. Start by taking a fresh look at your benefit packages.

Employers should take these accommodations into account when helping staff set up a remote work environment.

The coffee giant has introduced several new mental health benefits including free Headspace subscriptions and 20 mental health sessions with a therapist a year for free.

When considering how to adapt workplace wellness initiatives, employers must ensure workers have the resources necessary to meet their health and well-being goals, from wherever they are.

High levels of stress associated with loss and trauma increase employees’ risk for physical and mental health problems including diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, depression and substance misuse.

When the world went remote, the shift put light on the challenges that remote workers have always faced, including being excluded from meetings and not receiving information about policy changes.

Employees are cautious about discussing their mental health at work, but addressing these challenges can improve outcomes and lower healthcare costs.

Seventy five percent of employers reported being directly affected by opioids, often as contributing to workplace accidents, lost productivity, staffing issues, missed workdays, and increased care and leave costs.

Major depression is just one of hundreds of conditions where employers struggle to improve outcomes and costs.

Tech companies are leading the way on allowing employees to work from home permanently. The model is starting to take hold in other industries as well.

Organizations addressing the post-pandemic return to work will be required to assemble teams of specialists in safety, security, HR and risk management to aid in the challenge.

Employees are struggling to improve their mental health as the coronavirus is still a main concern, combined with the racial injustice crisis the country is facing.

Employee mental health is vital to a company’s performance, but the pandemic is worsening wellness as time passes and long-term effects compound, driving more insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress.

Out of the employees surveyed in the U.K., the U.S., Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, those in the U.S. are the most likely to lie to their employer about their reason for taking a sick day.