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International Journal of Health & Productivity
A special edition of the International Journal of Health & Productivity features four articles addressing the success of the EAPA endorsed Workplace Outcome Suite in measuring the effectiveness of EAP services, while a fifth article introduces a new tool the “Critical Incident Outcome Measurement” to measure the effectiveness of CIR interventions by EA professionals. For more information, click here. The entire journal can be viewed here.
HR News
It’s that time of year when everyone is starting to make their New Year’s resolutions. Most of the time these resolutions tend to focus on improved health and well-being. Promoting good health and wellness should also be an employer’s goal for 2019 so with this in mind, here is a summary of the five best workplace well-being initiatives and trends that businesses should look out for in 2019.
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The Atlantic
“I was always gung ho about going to graduate school for some reason,” reflects Everet Rummel, a data analyst at the City University of New York. “That was naive.”
Rummel was indeed gung ho, embarking on a doctoral program in economics immediately after completing both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just four years. He was only 22 years old. And Rummel was indeed naive, at least in his own telling of his plans. That plan — which for the average doctoral candidate takes roughly eight years — ended quickly, not because of Rummel’s characteristic efficiency but because he never completed it.
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MarketWatch
Some folks are looking at a blue Christmas.
Seventy-two percent of people say they feel some amount of stress during the holidays, according to a recent survey of users on the mental wellness platform Simple Habit. And women bear the brunt, a 2006 American Psychological Association survey found: They’re more likely than men to report heightened stress during the holidays (44 percent vs. 31 percent) and more likely to lean on unhealthy coping behaviors like comfort eating.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Over 500 EA professionals attended the 2018 China EAP Summit, held in Hangzhou, China, on Nov. 24-25. The theme of this year's conference was "Celebrating 20 years of EAP in China." Sub-themes focused on EAPs' Service to Society and Innovations in Governance. The conference was co-sponsored by the Chinese Psychological Association, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the China Employee Assistance Professionals Association, one of EAPA's largest branches. Former EAPA CEO, Dr. John Maynard, delivered the keynote presentation. He emphasized the importance of "localizing" the design and delivery of EA services to fit the cultural, social, political and organizational characteristics of each company or organization so that the EAP can add real value and utility.
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Vox
Scott knew he needed to focus on his work. His bosses were increasingly unhappy with his performance, and he was struggling to earn enough to support his wife and son. As he put it to me, “I was falling down on my job.”
Something else had consumed his attention: Scott just couldn’t stop playing video games.
As a computer programmer working from home, it was easy for Scott, now 45, to turn on a game at any time. And increasingly, he found himself playing instead of working — a problem for someone who was paid by the hour and was honest in reporting his hours.
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Forbes
“AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai told a town hall audience earlier this year. “It is more profound than, I don’t know, electricity or fire.”
A few numbers support the hyperbole: Venture capital firms committed more than $12 billion to AI startups last year, double the amount they invested in 2016, according to KPMG. And 80 percent of large companies have launched AI projects. Behind the investments are some bullish economic forecasts: According to McKinsey Global Research, AI could contribute an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030. That would put AI on par with the economic impact of steam in the 19th century and robots in manufacturing in the 20th.
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The HR Director
Debt, separation and bullying are the personal issues of most concern to employers when it comes to employee mental health, according to Aon, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. It polled employers online and during an Aon seminar called the Contemporary Drivers of Mental Health, in which Paul Farmer, CEO of Mind and co-author of a government report, "Thriving at Work, a review of mental health and employers" presented his findings.
Of the 92 employers surveyed in Aon’s poll, 39 stated that money and debt were their biggest concerns for employee mental health, 27 said divorce and separation, and 26 said bullying and harassment was the biggest issue.
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