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Evaluating AI-Enabled Wellbeing Solutions: A Guide for Employers

AI is transforming employee wellbeing, but it's hard to know what works for your company. Here are five strategies to find the right fit.

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Heart Health Isn’t Just for February. Here’s How to Make It Stick

Wondering how to support your team even after Heart Health Month ends?  Here are a few strategies to help your employees make the changes they need to their health. 

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Navigating the Shift: Strategies for Optimizing Employee Health Benefits in a Changing Landscape

Here are four strategies to address the potential slowdown in the healthcare point solution market amid economic challenges and vendor management complexities.

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Why Food Inclusion is Essential for Employee Weight Loss Programs

Food inclusion is a game-changer for employee weight loss programs. Here are three reasons why. 

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Why Fresh, Expert-Led Content is the Key to Employee Wellbeing Engagement

Employees need fresh, relevant, and accessible content that fits into their daily lives and inspires real behavior change. Here are three reasons why.

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Supporting Veterans with Grokker Resources

Veterans experience a wide range of mental health challenges, from anxiety and PTSD to sleep disorders and substance abuse. The numbers reveal a startling state of affairs: fewer than 50% of veterans in need receive mental health treatment after a tour of duty. Roughly 17 veterans die by suicide each day. 

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How to Make Open Enrollment Less Stressful

As open enrollment season approaches, it’s easy to get anxious about what lies ahead. Open enrollment is challenging enough on its own, and HR teams are under enough stress without the added workload open enrollment brings. More than two-thirds of HR leaders say that stress in general is on the rise. As HR deals with greater pressures around compliance and being a strategic business partner, open enrollment feels like yet another item on a to-do list that already feels too long. 

But you can get through this season and help your employees make informed benefits decisions with the right tactics. Here are five ways to make open enrollment easier this year. 

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Mental Health Day Off

The ideas surrounding mental health in corporate America too often prove self-defeating and counterproductive. Scientific American published a research-based analysis that indicates upwards of 55 percent of employees fear retribution for taking a mental health day off. Compounding that problem, studies point to 83 percent of Americans suffering work-related stress, with 29 percent saying the levels were high to extreme.

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Incentives for Wellbeing Programs

Providing support through wellbeing programs that your employees will love is only half the battle for industry leaders. There’s no use in offering a wellbeing program if your employees never actually participate, which is where incentives come in.

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Sleep Deprivation and Work Performance

The CDC found that approximately 24-48% of Americans, depending on the state they reside in, sleep less than the recommended amount of seven hours per night. In fact, 70 million Americans have some kind of sleeping disorder and 30% of those include short-term insomnia. 

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Engaging Wellness Activities to Promote to Employees

Corporate wellness programs deliver wide-reaching benefits that include reducing costs, energizing the workforce, and increasing employee retention. Those are reasons why upwards of 85 percent of large companies provide workplace wellness activities.

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Why Today’s Employees Need Mental Therapy More Than Ever

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 40 million people in this country have a mental health disorder, many of which often go untreated. The impact of mental health disorders is considerable in the workplace. They can affect employee performance, absenteeism, on-the-job accidents, and even staff turnovers. 

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NEW GUIDE

Caring For Remote Employees

Many organizations continue to work in remote and hybrid models as the pandemic winds down, but many employees, when given the option to return to work, would actually prefer to continue working remotely. Our new guide, Taking Care of Remote Employees: The Key To Business Success Beyond the Pandemic, gives you actionable steps to ensure that your employees feel supported no matter where they are working. 

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