benefits|employee assistance program|mental heatlth – Benefits Canada.com https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 2021 BPS coverage: Effective EAP must put plan members front and centre https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-wellness/2021-bps-coverage-effective-eap-must-put-plan-members-front-and-centre/ Fri, 28 May 2021 13:00:25 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=101208 Employers want to offer employee assistance programs and employees want access to them — so why do they tend to be so underused? The average EAP utilization sits at just 11 per cent and just 39 per cent of employees said they’re satisfied with EAP programs, according to the 2016 Sanofi Canada health-care survey. And […]

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]]> How the pandemic has evolved the meaning of an EAP https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-wellness/how-the-pandemic-has-evolved-the-meaning-of-an-eap/ Fri, 21 May 2021 11:59:58 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=100253 Canadians have weathered two waves of the coronavirus pandemic and are now working their way through the third. But what happens when the fourth wave — of psychological trauma, economic injury and burnout — arrives? One half of Canadians said they’d experienced worsening mental-health challenges during the pandemic, according to an April 2020 poll by […]

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