Category: @Work Magazine

Program Showcase: A Strategic Opportunity for Cross-Functional Collaboration

As more employers recognize the link between employee health and the bottom line, they seek programs that prioritize safety, healthy work design, and injury and illness protection. This type of holistic approach to worker health can help employers identify and understand trends and deploy targeted interventions.

Common Sense Compliance: Beware of Compliance-Related Risks

As more employers embrace wellness programs, they must also be aware of compliance-related risks. Get a few commonsense suggestions for how employers can encourage employee health and wellness and avoid legal risk.

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2023 Healthcare and Wellness Issue

This issue of @Work magazine offers suggestions for how employers can encourage appropriate use of available leave to avoid and address burnout and ensure whole-person health, guidance for designing return-to-work pathways that minimize employee stress, practical approaches that help one employer support absence and disability managers, and more.

Integrated Absence Management: Diversity in Designing Health and Well-Being Benefits

Benefit offerings that address the diverse needs of the workforce support equity, inclusion, and belonging. How can employers recognize and incorporate diversity to tailor strategic benefit plans to the unique needs of diverse groups of employees?

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The CEO’s Desk: Making Mental Health an Organizational Priority

Employers can help ensure that employees on leave return to work (RTW) as soon as they’re able to do so by building effective processes and acknowledging leave as an expected part of employment.

Managing Leave in the Era of Burnout and Quiet Quitting

Employers are starting to see the impact of burnout in their leave and time-off programs. To manage absences, including requests for intermittent leaves, employers are encouraged to respond with flexibility and empathy through programs and policies, culture, and more.

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Absence Matters: Prevention to Manage Manager Wellness

How can employers assess environmental issues that affect managers’ health and design a culture where managers are expected to take time off? Could encouraging leaders to model a new way of working that protects physical as well as mental health be the first step?

Optimizing Technology in Absence and Disability Management

Optimizing technology to streamline processes and improve compliance is a hot topic that comes with a hefty price tag. As more employers use technology to streamline absence and disability management processes, they must be strategic to avoid unintended legal consequences.

Emphasizing the Human Connection in Absence and Disability Management

Hundreds of absence and disability management professionals attended the 2023 DMEC Annual Conference in August to learn about best practices and collaborate on solutions to shared challenges. They left with renewed energy, new contacts, and valuable resources to support employees during emotional times.

2023 Americans with Disabilities Issue

Ongoing challenges with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance highlight the need for and value of education and training. And passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which mirrors some but not all of the ADA requirements, makes it even more important for employers to ensure compliance and support

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Category: @Work Magazine

Program Showcase: A Strategic Opportunity for Cross-Functional Collaboration

Common Sense Compliance: Beware of Compliance-Related Risks

2023 Healthcare and Wellness Issue

Integrated Absence Management: Diversity in Designing Health and Well-Being Benefits

The CEO’s Desk: Making Mental Health an Organizational Priority

Managing Leave in the Era of Burnout and Quiet Quitting

Absence Matters: Prevention to Manage Manager Wellness

Optimizing Technology in Absence and Disability Management

Emphasizing the Human Connection in Absence and Disability Management

2023 Americans with Disabilities Issue

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