Ideas To Improve Wellness in the Workplace
It’s great to take stock of your well-being program at the end of each program year. What worked? What didn’t? What adjustments should you make to reflect changing employee needs? As you look back on...
A Chat With Sheila Hamilton of Beyond Well: Mental Health in the Workplace
It’s always a pleasure to chat with Sheila Hamilton, a former journalist, current suicide prevention and mental health advocate, and the CEO of Beyond Well Solutions. As part of our month-long series on mental health,...
How To Talk About Mental Health in the Workplace
Learn how executives, managers and employees can talk about mental health in the workplace.
Enhance Workplace Culture by Supporting Employees’ Passions
Employees are people first, and it’s important to acknowledge their lives outside of the workplace. Organizations who support the interests and passions of their workforce see increased engagement, better employee health, and a more positive...
Heading Back To the Office? Keep Employee Well-Being Front and Center
Employers are busy getting physical workspaces ready to welcome back employees after almost a year and a half of working remotely. Amidst all the preparation, don’t forget the emotional element—how your employees will feel re-entering...
5 Employee Benefits Changed by COVID-19
It would be an understatement to say that the pandemic transformed what employees want and need from their benefit programs. In honor of National Employee Benefits Day on April 6, we thought we’d spend some...
Coronavirus Is Forcing Women to Make a Difficult Choice: Keep Working or Opt Out?
For working families with young children, the summer of COVID-19 was all about cobbling together creative ways to keep the kids busy. When schools announced they would only open virtually or in a hybrid fashion,...
Not Your Typical Back-to-School: Tips for Supporting Children and Parents
It’s back-to-school time, but for many families, it may not feel like it. In place of the usual trip to buy school supplies and new sneakers, parents are spending time processing what school will look...
How the Pandemic is Weakening an Already Precarious Childcare Situation
Last February, our WebMD whitepaper How Well-Being Programs Are Failing Women and Millennials discussed the lack of a universal parental leave policy and other family-friendly benefits in the U.S. and its effect on employee well-being....
Working From Home Continues: Helping Employees Stay Productive and Connected
Although states are lifting stay-at-home orders, many employers say they’ll continue to require employees to work from home through the summer. For some, that’s welcome news. For others struggling to be productive at home, it...
Finding Ways to Volunteer During the Pandemic
The “social connection” that volunteering fosters is one of the dimensions of well-being we urge our clients to consider as they strive to create a healthier workplace. Every year on WebMD Impact Day we get...
Working From Home: Tips from Our Team
Schools are closed, non-essential retail is shut down, and those of us who are lucky enough to do our jobs at home are now faced with the prospect of actually having to be productive. We...
Want to Be More Productive? You Might Need to Put Your Phone in Another Room
Despite all the great things about modern technology, there are days when we secretly want to throw our phones out the window. Between push notifications, texts, meeting alerts and email pings, our phones and laptops...
How Volunteering Boosts Well-Being
When you volunteer, you often get more than you give. In addition to providing you with a mental boost, doing charitable work may actually be beneficial for your physical health. Recent studies show evidence that...
The Emotional and Mental Aspects of Well-Being
As a society, we have made great strides in embracing total well-being as integral to personal happiness. This acknowledgement that well-being involves more than mere physical health has given rise to a greater focus on...