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Sept. 22, 2020

2020 Workplace Outcome Suite (WOS) Annual Report finds EAP counseling significantly improves employee wellbeing, ability to concentrate and productivity

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The 2020 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. For 2020, the study sample included 35,693 employees with self-reported data collected over a period of 10 years, between 2010 and 2019. A total of 38 different sources provided valid data on all five WOS measures: 20 EAP vendors, 17 employer-based programs and one industry group of external vendors in the United States.

Demand for Suicide Prevention Increases

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New findings underscore earlier survey data that indicate Americans are ready and willing to talk about mental health—in particular suicide—and they are feeling more empathetic during this time of uncertainty, isolation, economic stress, and concern about physical health.

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How many working parents have quit due to the pandemic?

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Working parents are among those most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling to juggle childcare and work responsibilities. Now, new data finds just how much the situation is taking its toll on employees and their employers.

Demand surges for connected workers due to COVID

EHS Today

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased demand for connected worker solutions according to new studies from independent research firm Verdantix. Faced with new risks to manage, firms have turned to connected worker solutions that enhance COVID-19 workplace track-and-trace initiatives and enable remote assistance with augmented reality (AR) technology.

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We can't ignore mental illness prevention in a COVID-19 world

The Conversation

During the early days of the pandemic, surveys showed a sharp increase in symptoms of anxiety and depression across Australia. These difficulties continued into mid-August. More than 40 percent of Australians aged 18 years and older feel high levels of anxiety, and around one in six report depressive symptoms. To target this, federal and state governments have increased telephone, online and face-to-face mental health supports. While this is vital, more needs to be done to prevent people suffering severe mental health problems in the first place.

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'We are therapists. After 6 months of lockdown, we're almost at breaking point'

Newsweek

Drs. Jessi Gold and Stephanie Zerwas write, "As this pandemic has progressed, we have noticed our job is not the same as it used to be, and have begun to wonder: who is looking out for the mental health of those trained and dedicated to support the growing needs of our country? In many ways, mental health professionals are frontline workers during this pandemic, too."

Depression, but not anxiety, linked with inflammation and metabolic change

European College of Neuropsychopharmacology via Medical Xpress

Anxiety and depression are often linked and assumed to be closely related, but now research has shown for the first time that depression and anxiety have different biochemical associations with inflammation and lipid metabolism. This indicates that different, more targeted treatments may be possible to treat anxiety and depression. This work was presented at the ECNP Congress.

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