The Cost Of Employee Stress
Americans are more stressed than ever. Stress impacts individual's personal and professional lives, and this impact makes it an important area of concern for employers. Learn how that stress can affect a business and how organizations can work to buck the trend.
Study: Mental Health Apps Not As Effective As Perceived
As companies expand their employee wellness programs to address mental health, there is increased focus on how mobile apps can serve as useful tools. Although more than 1,000 mental health apps exist, a recent study suggests these apps may not be as useful as one might think.
Employers Not Prepared For Opioid Crisis
Nearly 400,000 people in the U.S. died from opioid-related overdoses from 1999 to 2017, and half of those deaths were of people using prescription opioids. This public health emergency has reached the workplace, but employers are not ready.
Getting Executive Buy-In For An Employee Wellness Program
Implementing a wellness program isn’t a one-step solution. It requires a culture shift that is reflected in policies, programs, procedures, and behaviors the company displays. The only way to make that change is with the buy-in of senior executives, the CXOs. Here's how to get their support.
Study: Spending Time In Parks Boosts Emotional Wellness
A recent study found that spending as little as 20 minutes in an urban park can have a significant effect on emotional wellness. While this may seem like an obvious conclusion to draw, it provides scientific backing to the age-old wisdom that spending time in green places is good for mental health.
Employees Are Not Alone In Feeling Lonely
Loneliness may not be a widely discussed topic, but it should be. Just as mental health has emerged from obscurity to the forefront of employee wellness, loneliness is a public health issue that is reaching epidemic proportions. Here are some ways employers can reduce loneliness in the workplace.
Cultivating Happy, More Productive Employees
With a tight employment market and the well-known struggle to create employee engagement, employers are trying to figure out what makes employees happy at work. Salary, for sure, is one aspect, but surprisingly, it is not the be all and end all. Here are some research-backed suggestions.
Free Time, Wellness Most Preferred Employee Benefits
More so than onsite gyms, health coaching, or pet-friendly offices, employees said their top need was more time away from the office. This was the striking result of a survey that asked more than 1,200 employees about non-insurance and non-retirement benefits that were most important to them.
Nutrition Tracking To Lose Weight: Easier, More Effective Than Commonly Thought
Food tracking has long been shown to be an effective tool for healthy food consumption and weight loss, but many people are reluctant to track their food because they think it is too onerous to record every meal and snack. A new study suggests the ease and power of tracking nutrition.