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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The pre-conference training courses at the 2017 EAPA Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles offer an opportunity for a deep dive into a variety of EA related subject matters. Available for stand-alone registration or as an add-on to a full conference registration, this year's courses include: Masterful Consultation: Deepen Your Consulting Toolkit & Expand Your EAP’s Value, CEAP Exam Prep Course, Planning and Implementing an EAP from Zero to Go!, De-Mystifying EAP ROI Calculations, Leveraging Technology to Sell and Market EAPs in the 21st Century, and Transgender Visibility and Transition at Work: Best EAP Practices. For more information, click here. To register for one or more of these exciting programs, click here.
Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The 2017 Workplace Outcome Suite (WOS) Report is now available to the public. The WOS, an EAPA-endorsed tool, demonstrates the effectiveness of EAPs in quantifiable business terms. Over 30 participating EAPs agreed to use the WOS in 2017. The report had a sample size of 16,435 completed EAP employee cases. Although all five WOS outcomes (absenteeism, presenteeism, work engagement, workplace distress, and life satisfaction) showed statistically significant changes in the expected directions, there was greatest improvement and largest effects in work presenteeism and life satisfaction after use of EAP counseling. For more information read the press release. To read the 2017 Report, click here.
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This Day Live
The Employee Assistance Professionals Association of Nigeria has said that the economic downturn in Nigeria is adversely affecting the workplace with unfavorable implications for productivity, work schedule, ethics, motivation, welfare as well as at the association prospect for new members.
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Inside Counsel
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, warning of "significant disruptive consequences," urged a Washington federal judge not to toss out the agency's disputed workplace wellness rules as companies set in place their health insurance plans for 2018.
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Quartz
More than ever before, people are feeling disrespected at work. Employees, like some at Uber, feel they’re working in a toxic culture with insensitive managers. Others complain about being treated disrespectfully based on gender, race or religion. Some employees receive rude, stinging emails like those emails from The Walking Dead’s Frank Darabont.
What are the costs of employees feeling disrespected?
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New York Times
Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. It’s a staggering rise of more than 22 percent over the 52,404 drug deaths recorded the previous year — and even higher than The New York Times’s estimate in June, which was based on earlier preliminary data.
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Financial stress can have a serious impact on your employees’ performance, and has been reported to cost businesses an average of $7,000 per employee annually in lost productivity. Cambridge Credit Counseling is a nonprofit agency offering solutions to help your employees eliminate debt and alleviate the stress that debt causes.
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Psych Central
Paid sick leave is starting to gain momentum as a social justice issue with important implications for health and wellness. At the moment, only seven states in the United States have mandatory paid sick leave laws, and 15 states have passed preemptive legislation prohibiting localities from passing sick leave.
But how does a lack of paid sick leave affect Americans’ mental health? In a new study, researchers from Florida Atlantic University and Cleveland State University explore the link between psychological distress and paid sick leave among U.S. workers ages 18-64.
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Safety.BLR
Competition for top talent is tough in today’s marketplace. And with the U.S. unemployment rate hovering at 4.4 percent, it can be hard for small companies to find individuals to fill open positions. Now, a new survey of small-business employees finds that the safety of the work environment was among top factors for employees considering a new job offer. The survey was conducted by Employers, a leading small-business insurance provider.
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CBC
A changing workplace culture, a lack of job security, and 24/7 connectivity can lead to stress, but taken to the extreme, sometimes the job you love can really hurt you.
Workplace burnout is a major issue for many British Columbians. It can lead to reduced productivity, a loss of purpose and can even have a negative economic impact.
According to Merv Gilbert, an adjunct professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University, workplace burnout has three components.
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Psych Central
Most people understand how social media can be beneficial to its users. However, there is a lot of misunderstanding or misinformation regarding its detrimental effects and elements. In this article, we will look into it in more depth to understand how social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and so on impact people’s lives, and why people use it in the first place.
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