Employer Solutions: Integration Technology 101
Modern technology, designed to ease administration, can be overwhelming. Becoming a “technologist” isn’t required to embrace employee benefit and leave technology tools, but it is important to understand the lingo and the basic principles of integration, resources, and benefits.
Engaging Today’s Workforce: Telehealth for Individuals with Disabilities
Between accessibility, personal preference, and convenience, various factors influence how employees, including those with disabilities, care for their health and wellness. By providing benefits that cover in-person and virtual care, employers will be able to ensure a more productive and healthier workforce.
Integrated Absence Management: The HRIS Equation
Investing in a human resource information system (HRIS) can be a daunting experience, and getting the most out of it is increasingly important. When providers and employers work together to automate these services, they reduce the potential for gaps, mistakes, and inconsistencies.
Absence Matters: Data to Fuel Innovation
With medical absences at an all-time high, employers seek innovative well-being programs to address employees’ critical health needs. From mental health to diabetes, leave data can help employers design and build a more effective wellness and disease management program.
RTW/SAW Showcase: Lighting Can Help or Hinder Employee Productivity
Lighting can have a big effect on employee health and performance — especially for people who are sensitive to light — and can cost employers billions of dollars. With accommodations, employees with light sensitivity or photophobia can thrive in the workplace and deliver even more value to your organization.
Technology & Mental Health Offerings
Puget Sound Energy prioritizes mental health and encourages employees to use resources to assess and maintain their mental wellness on a regular basis. Technology makes access easier for employees to engage with resources any time they need them.
Employer Perspective: Optimizing Technology
For the Adecco Group, a national temporary staffing and workforce productivity company, embracing technology helped the risk management team shift from a culture of “no” to a culture of “know,” with more effective assessment and mitigation of safety issues.
Considerations for Choosing Absence Management Technology
Managing absence is increasingly complex, which has prompted employers to assess technology solutions. Updating an in-house solution, moving to full outsourcing, or changing absence management partners requires commitment from human resources; support from information technology; and change management skills from everyone involved, including the employees who need time away.
The CEO’s Desk: Finding the Sweet Spot for Technology in Leave Management
As the volume of leave management work expands, the need to embrace technology is increasingly essential for absence and disability managers to comply with local, state, and federal laws, and provide the type of support that employees expect.
Looking Forward as Disability Professionals
The work we do as human resources professionals and, specifically, absence and disability compliance practitioners, is hard and it’s getting harder, which makes it essential for teams to make their emotional and physical health a priority.
