employees employers mental health – 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 How employers can help staff dive back into in-person work https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-wellness/expert-panel-how-employers-can-help-staff-with-re-entry-anxiety/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 13:00:42 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=101374 As Canadians watch the U.S. reopen with life returning to normal in various stages, in addition to thoughts of attending sporting events, concerts and gathering with loved ones, employees are also starting to think about what their daily routines will look like in a post-coronavirus pandemic world. For those employees who moved to remote work […]

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]]> 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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]]> 2021 BPS coverage: Pandemic presents opportunity to address substance use with employees https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-wellness/2021-bps-coverage-pandemic-presents-opportunity-to-address-substance-use-with-employees/ Thu, 27 May 2021 13:00:58 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=101153 Substance use disorder is the largest unmanaged disease in modern health care, but few options exist that allow those affected to continue to work while being treated and that address plan members whose substance use issues aren’t visible in the workplace. “The overwhelming majority of substance use cases is invisible to the eye,” said Elliot […]

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]]> Dialogue acquiring mental-health provider e-Hub Health https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-benefits/dialogue-acquiring-mental-health-provider-e-hub-health/ Wed, 26 May 2021 19:00:01 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=101030 Dialogue Health Technologies Inc. is acquiring mental-health provider e-Hub Health, which provides internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy. e-Hub Health offers a range of programs to support mental-health concerns, including moodgym, which targets the reduction of depression and anxiety symptoms; e-couch, which includes targeted programs for depression, anxiety, bereavement, divorce and social anxiety; and mental-health guru, a module-based online […]

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]]> Coverage of the 2021 Tech Insights: Spring Edition Conference https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-benefits/coverage-of-the-2021-spring-tech-insights-conference/ Fri, 21 May 2021 12:01:55 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=100341 On April 15, Benefits Canada hosted 2021 Tech Insights: Spring Edition, an event designed to showcase the latest technology in benefits, administration and plan member offerings. This event specifically provides a forum for companies to sell you on the benefits of their technology. You can view the conference highlights below: The benefits of digital pharmacy for plan […]

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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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]]> Optimizing health outcomes with in-depth medical consultations https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-benefits/a-look-at-whats-hiding-in-drug-plan-claims-data/ Fri, 21 May 2021 11:58:24 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=100255 “What if I told you at least one in four members of your benefits plan has an unresolved health risk?” asked Radpay, the president of HumanisRx, during Benefits Canada‘s 2021 Tech Insights: Spring Edition conference. In a study in partnership with Munich Re, HumanisRx reviewed the insurer’s claims history experience for 85,000 plan members and […]

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]]> Why digital health care is here to stay following pandemic https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-benefits/why-digital-health-care-is-here-to-stay-following-pandemic/ Fri, 21 May 2021 11:56:18 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=100258 The same technology advancements that allowed for hyper-personalized service in sectors from banking to food delivery were already in the process of remaking health-care access and delivery. And then the coronavirus pandemic hit, quickly accelerating the acceptance of digital health care in Canada. Surveys have shown 60 per cent of health-care visits are now taking […]

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]]> Focusing on employee experience helping build new, improved work culture https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/archives_/benefits-canada-archive/focusing-on-employee-experience-helping-to-build-new-improved-work-culture/ Fri, 14 May 2021 12:53:01 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=99837 Amid the second (and hopefully last) year of the coronavirus pandemic, employers are starting to plan for the post-pandemic future. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, forcing many employers around the globe to rapidly shift mainly white-collar employees to working from home. By April 2020, in Canada, […]

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