Employee Assistance
Stress Survival Skills
There are eight essential Stress Survival Skills that work in combination to help you make decisions. They focus on preventing distress and enriching the quality of your life. Everyone has a form of the skills below, some which bring about negative change; most bring out a positive change. Decide which skills you want to strengthen?… Read More
Helping Employees Deal With Stress
Employees still struggle with stress – despite the supposed return to normal. In fact, some mental health experts say it’s staggering to employees. According to Mental Health America’s Mind in the Workplace report: 83% of employees experience early signs of burnout 25% of employees experience the most severe signs of burnout, which include poorer performance,… Read More
Combat Stressful Work Situations
Recent research has proved that there is a high percentage of Americans who feel stressed at work, and this percentage is only getting higher with time—a survey conducted with more than 2000 full-time employees in the U.S. between the ages 18-79 showed that more than half of the people find themselves in stressful situations at work 60%… Read More
Employers seeing resignation spikes this summer?
By Kathryn Moody Will employers seeing resignation spikes this summer? Brief: While general wisdom holds that few people wanted to leave their jobs during the pandemic, data from Visier shows that voluntary resignations did not drop as dramatically as may have been presumed — and for some groups of employees, resignations even increased, the workforce analytics… Read More
Can EAP Use Be Required by an Employer?
April 27,2021 Can EAP Use Be Required by an Employer? Question: Can we require our employees to use an employee-assistance program? We have an employee who made a physical threat against her supervisor to a member of HR. We want to make that employee consult with a therapist at an EAP as a condition for that… Read More
Requiring Vaccines Hurt a Company’s Culture?
A new study says 67% of companies are concerned about a mandate’s impact on employee morale While many people, thankfully, have moved heaven and earth to discover, produce and distribute a vaccine for COVID-19, when it comes to deciding whether companies should require vaccination as a term of employment, there isn’t a clear consensus. While… Read More
Wellness Trends for 2021
Though the COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge us in so many ways, more and more employers are realizing that well-designed corporate wellness trends and programs can provide significant relief for their employees. A recent survey of 2,185 professionals from 19 countries found that 89% of professionals feel more productive during the workday after exercising and 96%… Read More
EMS World – Better Ways to Cope
Issue: December 2020 Michael Worthen, NRP I first became intrigued with EMS and the fire service by the TV program Rescue 911. After seeing how first responders saved everybody and always had a positive outcome (it seemed realistic enough, right?), this was what I wanted to do. I didn’t know the mental toll this career would… Read More
Positive Tests Climb During Pandemic
Source: Positive Tests for Fentanyl, Heroin, Opioids Climb During Pandemic Tom Valentino, Senior Editor Addiction Professional Rates of positive tests for heroin, non-prescribed fentanyl and non-prescribed opioids each saw significant increases during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published by Quest Diagnostics. The study, which was published by the journal… Read More
Election Year Politics Protocols for Office Talk
Election Politics Protocols for the Office Most of us are familiar with the old adage cautioning against discussing politics in polite company, but at least one survey a few years ago indicated that employees do not heed this advice in the workplace. According to the survey by Vault.com, 66% of respondents say that their coworkers… Read More
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