Work / Life Issues

These 8 great holiday perks can reduce employee stress

11/27/2023

You can help ease employee stress this holiday season by adding a few low-cost timesavers to your holiday bonus package. Small holiday kindnesses on the part of the company can pay off in a big way for the organization all year. Here are a few ways your organization can help holiday-harried employees stay productive at work.

How employers can best support grieving caregivers

11/21/2023

Over 40 million Americans care for an unwell relative over the age of 50, a responsibility that can take up as much as 50 hours each week. Those responsibilities can have a significant impact on their work, affecting schedules, energy levels and overall sense of well-being.

Looming child-care crisis could affect your employees

10/30/2023

Many of your employees may soon begin scrambling to find child care for their kids—if they’re not already struggling. That’s because as many as 70,000 child-care providers nationwide could be forced to close after $24 billion in American Rescue Plan federal funding ran out Sept. 30. Thousands of day cares have shut their doors since then.

Employees worry their pay isn’t keeping up with inflation…

10/16/2023

Over the last year, the impact of inflation and economic uncertainty has increased the financial stress employees feel. Only 42% of those polled rated their financial wellness as good or excellent, the lowest rate since 2010.

‘Selling’ benefits: 5 ways to repackage perks & increase participation

10/11/2023

The two keys to greater use of your work/life benefits: constant communication and the right kind of communication. Here are five suggestions to achieve those goals.

As bills come due, consider adding student-loan assistance benefits

10/02/2023

Many of your employees are about to face significant financial stress. After a three-year pause triggered by the pandemic, 43 million Americans must resume making payments on federal student loans this month.

Consider addressing menopause care with your company’s portfolio of benefits

09/27/2023

According to a new study by the Mayo Clinic, employees going through menopause are more likely to miss work, cut back to part-time status or even quit. That can mean losing employees at an age when their experience and talent are at their peak.

It’s almost open enrollment, so let’s talk wellness benefits

09/12/2023

The only tax-free wellness benefit is reducing the monthly premiums employees pay for their major medical coverage. But there’s a darker flipside to wellness benefits that some employees won’t like: surcharges on employees’ major medical coverage for those who smoke tobacco.

Retaining top talent, managing higher costs driving employers’ benefits strategies

07/17/2023

Eighty percent of employers surveyed by Willis Towers Watson said competition for talent is the top priority influencing their benefits strategy right now. The second highest priority: managing higher costs, cited by 67% of employers. Coming in third and fourth were a focus on inclusion and diversity (cited by 41%) and caring for employees’ mental health (39%).

What striking down student-loan forgiveness might mean for employers

07/03/2023

On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student-loan debt for millions of Americans was not legally permissible. The decision in Biden v. Nebraska has implications for employers as well as former college students.