The Surprising Link Between Mind, Body and Healthcare Costs
Although usually treated separately, mental health and physical health can influence each other in many important, surprising ways. Ignoring one or the other in your benefits offering can significantly impact your employees’ quality of life, [...]
How Financial Wellness Programs Are Good For Companies, Too
While the current national economy is fairly strong, the state of our personal financial wellness is scarier than ever. According to the recent Country Financial Security Index, 67% of Americans are worried about their financial [...]
Your Workforce Is Not As Healthy As You Think
For the young men and women now in the workforce – now working for your company – anxiety and other mental health issues are on the rise. According to The Atlantic, this should not come [...]
Espyr® Latest NPS Score Puts It In World Class Customer Service Category
Espyr is excited to announce it achieved a new high in Net Promoter®Score (NPS) in its 2018 customer satisfaction study. Espyr's Net Promoter Score of 77 puts it in lofty company with brands widely admired [...]
The Surging Suicide Rate; What Should Employers Do?
Today’s news headlines that life expectancy for Americans fell for the second time in the past 3 years painted a disturbing picture of life in America. The primary reasons for the decline? Increasing deaths from [...]
How To Manage Rising Employee Anxiety and Depression
A multitude of recent studies tell us that anxiety and depression are markedly higher now than in earlier eras. For employers, the most common tool provided to employees suffering from anxiety, depression and other mental [...]
Can Limiting Social Media To 10 Minutes Per Day Improve Your Mental Health?
Social media. Is it bad for you or good for you? That is a question actively debated by psychologists, mental health advocates, parents, teachers, and even those in Silicon Valley. Certainly social media has profoundly [...]
What Every HR Manager Needs to Know About the Impact of Marijuana Legalization
With the conclusion of the 2018 midterm elections, Michigan became the 10th state (including District of Columbia) to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. In addition, voters in Utah and Missouri approved marijuana legalization for [...]
Dying For Help: Addressing Mental Health Stigma In The Workplace
Polished. Buttoned up. Accomplished. Funny. This was how Sally Saba, MD was described. And on March 5, 2017 she attempted to take her own life. So it was only natural that the filled auditorium was [...]
The Cost of Sexual Harassment and Assault
From charges against Harvey Weinstein, to the #MeToo movement, to the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sexual abuse and harassment have become – finally – elevated issues in our society. While these [...]
Espyr Chief Clinical Officer Norman Winegar to Speak on Mental Health Panel
Depression and other mental health issues are more common than most of us would think. 40 million Americans live with depression, and 1 in 5 Americans is diagnosed with a mental health issue in a given [...]
Workplace Drug Use: Think It’s Not A Problem For You?
If today’s employers are finding that employee engagement is especially low, it may be because some of their employees are high. A new study released this summer by Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic information services, [...]