There is a shift we are seeing across the board, where employers – now more than ever – want to provide health and mental wellness tools to their employees. This is not only a great thing to promote health and wellness, but also for employee retention, given that happy and healthy employees are more productive and loyal than their unhappy and less healthy peers.
In response, more and more employers are incorporating a total holistic wellbeing strategy for their employees. As one example, many employers offer both a Wellness Spending Account (to help cover the cost of such things as gym memberships, running shoes, and sporting fees) and an Employee and Family Assistance Plan, or EFAP which aims to help improve a person’s mental and emotional health with professional counselling and online wellbeing resources. The great thing about this is total confidentiality for the employee, and its minimal monthly cost helps you to stay on budget.
Most employers don’t know what their employees are going through in their personal lives. Tools like these – especially an EFAP – provide the help employees need to be happier, healthier, and more productive in not only their professional lives but also their personal life.
For more information give me a call.
Matthew Hill B.A.
Benefits Associate, Wiegers Financial and Insurance Planning Services Ltd.
Wiegers Financial & Benefits
306-244-0949
matthew.hill@wiegers.ca