Paid Leave: A Competitive Advantage That Improves Employee Health

By Steffanie Trumino, Vice President, Human Resources, AbsenceSoft; and Seth Turner, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, AbsenceSoft

A well-communicated leave program is a critical way to help employees improve their health by alleviating stress, combating burnout, and improving work-life balance. These outcomes alone demonstrate why leave should be a cornerstone of any competitive benefits program.

Reports of burnout are on the rise. In fact, 44% of employees say they are more burned out on the job today than a year ago.¹ This state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion is caused by excessive and prolonged stress. And as society slowly adapts to remote work as a new norm, the boundary between work and home life becomes increasingly blurred, and many employees experience excessive and prolonged stress from spending too much time working.

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