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Employer Solutions: Preventable Absences

Being proactive with your employees’ health and safety is essential to keep your workforce productive. Conditioning programs, ergonomics training, lessons in lifting, physical ability tests, and employee assistance programs can be effective prevention strategies to consider.

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Supporting Caregiving Employees

Employers should consider customizing benefits and other resources that meet the evolving needs of caregiving employees. As more employees expect their employers to provide resources to balance their personal and professional lives, it will be increasingly important to offer generous packages that promote holistic health and financial wellness.

Absence Matters: Win the Wellness Game

In the quest for employee wellness, prevention has become critical. Proactive and preventive healthcare can reduce illness and claims, as well as help employees stay at work, which is a win for everybody.

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Industry Q&A: A Different Mindset to Ensure Inclusive Environments

As employers redefine acceptable approaches to work, they can differentiate themselves in a competitive hiring market and ensure policies and practices align with mission, vision, and value statements. Debra Dupree, an absence management consultant and mediation specialist, offers guidance for employers grappling with unprecedented operational and human resource-related changes.

Employer Perspective: Supporting Employee Mental and Emotional Well-being

Creating a culture of well-being starts with establishing employee health as an organizational priority. Temple University Health System, Inc. has a commitment to meeting employees where they are with their well-being journeys (from mental to physical and financial health) and includes them in efforts to create effective well-being programs.

Program Showcase: Well-Being Strategy

There has been unprecedented demand for mental health support during the last several years, especially for healthcare employers with clinicians working long hours on the front lines. It is not enough for organizations to amass well-being benefits, such as employee assistance programs, telehealth, virtual behavioral health, and text coaching.

Navigating the Complex Web of Pregnancy and Parental Leave Laws and Programs

Employers and employees face a daunting task when it comes to planning for leave related to pregnancy, childbirth, and bonding with a new child. Many disability laws and policies may apply that provide paid leave, unpaid leave, and/or paid benefits for disability during pregnancy, disability to recover from childbirth,

Powerful Returns Prompt Employers to Rethink Benefit Offerings

Before the pandemic, many Americans were ill-prepared for unexpected emergencies, which has been exacerbated by the recent rise in inflation. As a result, more employees are forced to tap into their savings and 401(k) plans to make ends meet. A few ways that employers can help employees get back

The CEO’s Desk: Doing Good = Doing Well

Investments in employee healthcare and wellness can have major budget implications and influence the work of integrated absence management professionals in myriad ways — from return-to-work time frames to short- and long-term disability costs, the duration of family and medical leaves, and more.

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Category: @Work Magazine

Employer Solutions: Preventable Absences

Supporting Caregiving Employees

Absence Matters: Win the Wellness Game

Industry Q&A: A Different Mindset to Ensure Inclusive Environments

Employer Perspective: Supporting Employee Mental and Emotional Well-being

Program Showcase: Well-Being Strategy

Navigating the Complex Web of Pregnancy and Parental Leave Laws and Programs

Powerful Returns Prompt Employers to Rethink Benefit Offerings

The CEO’s Desk: Doing Good = Doing Well

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