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SHRM
The end of one year and the start of another bring tasks that can cause friction in any workplace: Managers may have to deliver bad news to employees during performance reviews; department heads may need to explain why they overspent a budget, or quibble about dividing the new budget; and workers may grow angry about the size of their bonus or salary increase.
All these conversations can be breeding grounds for hostility, finger-pointing, defensiveness and more. And stress left over from the holidays can compound people's emotions when they approach touchy subjects at work, said Norbert "Bert" Alicea, vice president of employee assistance programs and work/life services at benefits solutions firm Health Advocate Inc., based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
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SHRM
Benefits specialists say that giving employees money management training and tools through a financial wellness program is a key workplace trend for 2017.
"A big opportunity is to take this year to push ahead on financial wellness," said Michael Archer, Philadelphia-based leader of the client solutions group for Willis Towers Watson's North American retirement practice. "The tools for employers to measure and improve financial wellness are more broadly available, and taking advantage of these programs can have big payoffs for employees and employers."
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Dayton Daily News
More than a quarter of employers have examined the prescription drug claims of its employees to identify possible opioid abuse, and another 25 percent are considering such measures, according new survey from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
A third of employers report that prescription drug addiction is at least somewhat prevalent among their workforce, and the majority — 67 percent — believe that substance abuse challenges are greater now than five years ago, according to the survey.
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The Huffington Post
When it comes to addressing issues surrounding both our mental and physical health, more and more experts are telling us the workplace is an ideal place to start.
But as the nature of work changes ever so rapidly, it can also be a place where health — particularly mental health — creeps down the priority ladder.
"Whilst we are talking more these days about health and well-being issues, what we are finding is that this awareness is not being translated into action — particularly from the top," CEO of Australian men's health organization OzHelp Tony Holland told The Huffington Post Australia.
"There's a massive gap in how these issues are being addressed."
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Bloomberg BNA
Ninety-two percent of U.S. and Canadian organizations report a stressed workforce
and 66 percent report a prevalence of depression in their organizations, says the
Mental Health and Substance Abuse: 2016 Survey Results from the Wisconsin-based International
Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
The report is intended in part to make employers and their HR staffs more aware of
the seriousness of the problem.
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Employee Benefits
Less than a third (31 percent) of respondents say that their employer does enough to support employee well-being and mental health, according to research by workplace consultancy Peldon Rose.
Its survey of 621 office-based employees also found that 37 percent of respondents feel their employer appreciates them, down from 44 percent a year ago.
In addition, just over a quarter (26 percent) say that their workplace has a positive effect on their mental health.
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Psych Central
We all experience stress at times, and for many people a major source of stress stems from work related issues.
Feeling overworked, tight deadlines and a lack of job-security can keep us in a chronic state of fight-or-flight.
Stress isn't all bad of course. A healthy dose of stress in the right context is positive and productive. This healthy stress is called eustress, and it helps us stay motivated and engaged in our goals and objectives.
But, when stress gets the best of us we can experience burnout, feel overwhelmed and end up struggling to deal with our day to day responsibilities.
So here are six tips to defeat that unhealthy stress in your life so you can stay focused and productive at work.
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Workforce
Lyndsey Morash was working at a long-hour, high-stress job in Boston in 2012. Meanwhile, she was also taking classes to become a certified yoga instructor. She soon started a business based on her experiences as an employee and a yoga enthusiast. "I was working full-time and, after I finished my yoga training, I knew that I wanted to marry the two worlds: the corporate world and the wellness world," said Morash. She founded Chasing Nirvana, a mobile yoga studio that brings wellness to corporate offices, along with meditation and health coaching. She has a staff of instructors who have been properly trained, certified and insured so that an organization doesn't have to do the background work.
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