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Employee Benefit Adviser
For the past several years, the steady drumbeat of corporate wellness stories has surrounded a uniform theme: corporate wellness/employee assistance programs do not yield a quantifiable return on investment. Yet, employer spending on wellness and EAPs continues to increase: $693 was spent per employee on wellness-based incentives in 2015, up from $594 in 2014, according to Fidelity and the National Business Group on Health.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The Journal of Employee Assistance is now a 36-page magazine – and the first issue of the New Year features a look at the impact of millennials on employee assistance.
In the cover story, Nancy Grunnet points out that EA professionals can help bridge the generation gap. In another article, EAP researcher Bernie McCann explains that EA professionals can offer value-added services to businesses seeking to address generational diversity in the workplace. Joel Becker, a neuropsychologist, writes that EAPs offer valuable services to employees who are experiencing cognitive and emotional decline. Marina London and Michael Klaybor present the key points they discussed in their 2016 World EAP Conference workshop on "Starting, Selling, and Growing an EAP." Barb Veder talks about "Leading EFAP Trends in Canada." The issue provides a recap of the recent World EPA Conference and offers a list of both the 2016 EAPA Award Winners and the top 10 rated sessions. (members only benefit)
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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
In August 2016, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans deployed a survey to members representing corporations, multiemployer trust funds and public employers/governmental entities across the United States and Canada. The study examines the various types of mental health/substance abuse benefits that organizations provide to their employees and participants. In total, the survey received 344 completed responses, with 247 coming from U.S. respondents and 97 from Canadian respondents.
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GoodTherapy.org
Though men and women are at a similar risk of being bullied in the workplace, they may have different reactions to it. A study published in the journal Labour Economics explored absenteeism due to workplace bullying and found that men are more likely to leave the workplace in response to bullying.
The study’s authors say workplace bullies may make it difficult for an employee to do their work properly, hand more interesting or rewarding tasks to other employees, or repeatedly change an employee’s work.
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Personnel Today
Making a business case for well-being initiatives is problematic. Intervening in employees’ personal lives by providing a batch of benefits is one thing, but how can you demonstrate the payback on major well-being campaigns and programs? Kirsten Samuel from Kamwell offers the steps to success.
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FireEngineering
In recent years, suicide has come to be recognized as a growing problem in the fire service. In July 2011, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation held the first fire service suicide and depression summit. Most people at the conference recognized suicide as a problem in the fire service and even knew members who had taken their lives, but there were no statistics on how many firefighters die by suicide each year or data that could help the fire service to assess the suicide situation or to prevent suicide among its members.
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The BOSS Magazzine
Greatist’s 44 Healthiest Companies to Work for in America identifies organizations that are “redefining office culture and proving that working hard and finding balance aren’t mutually exclusive.”
An online community that is devoted to promoting healthy choices, Greatist highlights workplaces that go beyond the token bowl of mushy apples in the meeting room to strategic well-being initiatives that promote overall health.
This isn’t the only company that ranks businesses based on the balance of workplace culture. It’s becoming more apparent that companies that offer these types of perks are generally more successful.
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JD Supra
In Burnham v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Case No. 2015-1127 the Ohio Supreme Court recently issued a decision that will make it easier to file immediate (aka interlocutory) appeals from trial court decisions requiring production of privileged information during discovery. Reminger was honored to prepare and file amicus briefs at both the jurisdictional and merit levels of the Supreme Court process for the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio.
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Time
A diagnosis of a mental illness — either yours or a family member’s — can upend your career. Your condition may get in the way of your ability to do your job well, or, even if it doesn’t, you may need to make special arrangements to get the care you or your loved one needs.
And disruptions can prove costly. Workers with depression lose nearly six hours of productivity a week at work, according to a 2003 study published in JAMA.
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