In several of our blogs we’ve suggested surveying your employees as a starting point for future wellness initiatives. Your best chance at employee engagement in your workplace wellbeing programs begins with asking your employees what they want!
Whether it has to do with workplace safety, financial wellbeing, internal work processes, or other factors that influence wellbeing, it’s always a good idea to see what your employees think about it first.
It’s officially fall! Cooler weather is on its way, leaves will be changing colors, football season has begun, and the highly coveted pumpkin-flavored items have returned to menus everywhere!
But fall also means the start of flu season...
How can the flu impact your workforce? What can you do to help prepare your employees and encourage wellbeing?
What is the USPSTF, you ask? The USPSTF is the United States Preventive Services Task Force. It is “an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, and preventive medications.”
Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Karen Moscato. We hope you enjoy Karen’s wisdom and perspective.
The meetings went well. I had driven to one of our offices located 2 hours away to attend two important meetings on capacity and efficiencies. These are hot topics in today’s business world. While driving and recapping the meetings in my thoughts, I didn’t pay attention to the gas gauge for the first hour of the trip. The bright orange light got my attention indicating a potentially empty gas situation. I had better find a station quickly or I would be calling AAA for assistance!
Do your workplace wellness efforts include financial wellbeing? Financial stress is part of many people's lives. And unfortunately it doesn't stop when your employees get to work. Consider these statistics:
Struggling to find the right workplace wellness efforts for your organization? Not sure why employees aren’t engaging in the programs you offer? Or why you are not seeing much change in your people?
Without the foundation of health and wellbeing in the workplace, your wellbeing efforts are likely to fall short. So how can you make sure your initiatives hit the mark?
Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger, Dr. Eric Bricker, Chief Medical Officer of Compass Professional Health Services. We hope you enjoy Dr. Eric’s wisdom and perspective.
There are many buzzwords in employee benefits, but have you heard of “Health Activation?” While more common terms include “employee engagement,” “member engagement” or “patient engagement,” the industry would be better served to use a term like “Health Activation.” Why? Because Health Activation goes beyond a one-time event and instead focuses on empowering good healthcare decisions.
In the war for talent, any benefit you can offer that employees will find useful can help set you apart. Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are an affordable offering to consider.
How am I going to pay off my student loans? Can I afford my increased health insurance premiums? How can I save to send my children to college? Will I be able to save enough for retirement?
Are these questions on the minds of your employees? Most likely yes. Financial worries are a growing concern for many people.
But have you considered addressing financial stress as part of your workplace wellness efforts?
With the constant evolution of human capital, it is imperative that employees, and leaders, are engaged at all levels. Have you enabled a culture that makes your team wake up in the morning and look forward to coming to work? Or are they simply collecting a paycheck? Talented employees can get a paycheck anywhere…everything an employer provides beyond a paycheck is what keeps them there.
