10 Ways To Protect Your Child On Social Media
Way back (in digital time) in 2011, The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a comprehensive study on the impact of social media on children, adolescents and the family. In those kinder, gentler days of social [...]
Health and Wellness: Revealing Trends In Benefits
The numbers don’t lie. The inclusion of new, innovative health and wellness offerings and initiatives as part of a company’s benefits package is increasing dramatically. In a survey by WorldatWork, the leading nonprofit professional association [...]
Work/Life Balance: Is That What Millennials Really Want?
To be a better employer – a better company – it’s important to give your employees everything they need to be better, too. A central concept in that regard is to avoid the cultural pressure [...]
The importance of mental health in the workplace
A few months ago, Patti Murin, the actress playing Anna in the Broadway show, Frozen, tweeted that she needed to take some time off for mental health reasons. In her tweet, Murin stated, “I’ve learned [...]
How To Reduce Employee Financial Stress And Boost The Bottom Line
For benefits decision makers, employee physical wellness has always taken center stage, first with health insurance, then with proactive wellness programs designed to keep employees healthier and save employers money. Over the last few decades, [...]
How Productive Are You When You Can’t Make Ends Meet?
Money, is the leading cause of stress in America and, boy, are we stressed out these days! According to a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Services, stress, anxiety and depression were at all [...]
Health and Wellness: Is Your Company Keeping Up?
The numbers don’t lie. The inclusion of new, innovative health and wellness offerings and initiatives as part of a company’s benefits package is increasing dramatically. In a survey by WorldatWork, the leading nonprofit professional association [...]
Five Steps Businesses Need To Be Taking Now To Address The Opioid Crisis
According to the CDC, 115 people die in the US everyday of opioid overdoses. That’s more than from car accidents, gun violence, and most forms of cancers. Opiate related overdoses are now the leading cause [...]
Espyr® Announces Major Marketing Partnership with Fairbanks
Partnership To Bring Next Generation Behavioral Health Management Program To Fairbanks Employer Relationships Espyr, the leading behavioral health company developing innovative solutions for maximizing human and organizational potential, and Fairbanks, one of the oldest and [...]
What Makes Healthy Companies Healthy?
Most of us spend more time at work than we do at home and research has proven that the modern workplace is not the healthiest place. Due to too much time sitting at a desk, [...]
The Benefit That Retains Talent and Cuts Cost?
You're In For A Surprise. It’s always a challenge to attract and retain good employees. But in times of high employment – like today – the challenge is even greater. Of course, in any economy, [...]
Removing the Stigma of Mental Health
Many people feel uncomfortable talking about mental health. Thanks to a long history of movies, books and news stories, the term “mental illness” may conjure up disturbing images of hallucinating schizophrenics, mass shootings and psychotic [...]