Why Employee Wellness Matter
Bottom line, employee wellness affects your bottom line. When an employee is stressed, or not healthy, it affects performance and productivity. Recent surveys confirm that employee stress has risen more than 20% over the past few decades for a variety of reasons that range from financial worries to conflicts with the boss or coworkers. If an employer wants to reduce healthcare expenses, and prevent productivity loss, which are eating at an employer’s bottom line more than any other time in history, there are several related factors that fall under the concept of “employee well-being” that greatly influence their efforts.
Inspire Culture First offers practical, innovative solutions that help employers support well-being by creating a workplace culture that inspires employees to be their best. Here’s a few examples:
Employee Assistant Programs or EAPs – take employee wellness to a higher level. EAP programs help employees deal with substance abuse, occupational stress, limited financial resources, major life events, legal concerns and many other personal issues. An effective EAP will show your strong commitment to your employee’s overall wellness and help them stay productive through life’s inevitable, and sometimes tough, times.
Health Benefits – utilize data and technology to keep employees healthy. Health benefits that are tailored to fit your employees needs, and personalized with smart technology providing mobile access and decision-making tools gives your employees access to the right care, at the right time – when they need it most.
Voluntary Benefits, sometimes referred to Ancillary or Worksite Benefits – alleviate financial worries. Voluntary benefits offer employees supplemental insurance that goes beyond traditional coverage. They can be implemented at little or no cost to the employer and go a long way to connect all of the components of employee wellness with valued products and services that actually help employees enjoy life, while being better prepared for the unknown, and without stretching the budget.
Wellness Plans – Incorporating wellness into the health benefit package can pay large dividends. So much so that many carriers have invested heavily into research that shows which wellness strategies keep its members the most healthy and out of the doctor’s office. As a result, many carriers include basic wellness benefits in the core health coverage. In addition to preventative health screenings and telemedicine, these include onsite or virtual fitness programs, nutrition classes, gym memberships, counseling, substance abuse help and more. For employers wanting to go beyond the basic wellness coverage, Inspire Culture First can evaluate your needs and recommend wellness plan vendors that offer the most ROI.
Effective Employee Relations – get the most from your benefit programs. If your employees don’t understand their benefits, they don’t appreciate their value. Often, valuable benefits go unused because of lack of information, or employees are overwhelmed with too much information. Inspire Culture First can help you promote engagement and ensure success of your benefit programs. And, we handle everything, leaving you more time to focus on running your business.
Why Employee Relations Matter