How to Increase Your Productivity with Better Sleep
Your full potential—creative, professional, and personal—requires a body that’s functioning at peak efficiency and that means adequate sleep.
Health, Healthy Living, Insights, Productivity, Wellness
The Secret to Mentally Healthy Workplaces
As we seek to create mentally healthy workplaces let’s first ask how we got to the place where so many workplaces undermine our mental health.
EAP, Employee Engagement, Mental Health, Wellness, Workplace Culture
Coping with Workplace Stress: How Employers Can Help
Your job is the vehicle for providing an income to meet these needs, yet it can be the very thing that creates more stressors along the way.
Employee Engagement, Healthy Living, Insights, Productivity, Well-Being, Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Workplace Culture
Millennials and Financial Stress: How Employers Can Help
Millennials now make up 35% of the US labor force. The sheer size of this generation demands attention, and employers must adapt to the unique needs, expectations and demands of this cohort.
Financial Well-Being, Insights, Mental Health, Wellness
How Your EAP can Improve Mental Health in the Workplace
This is a series of features on our blog that puts a focus on Mental Health in the workplace and provides resources for leaders in your company. Mental health is a critically important part of your employees’ lives at home and their lives at work. BHS is making great strides in providing support for individuals […]
Mental Health, Well-Being, Wellness, Workplace Culture
Can You Make Your Wellness Program Go Viral?
Whether it’s a trending hashtag or a popular kitten-playing-the-piano video, an idea that goes viral grows exponentially through social sharing. A concept that starts with an individual can spread like wildfire through Westeros (#gameofthrones for the uninitiated). Your wellness program can benefit from the same viral thinking that created a star out of a mom […]
Employee Engagement, Healthy Living, Insights, Well-Being, Wellness, Workplace Culture
How Do Your Employees Sleep At Night? Should You Care?
Sleep may seem like the most unproductive part of each day. It’s downtime, off the clock, non-billable-hours time. Surely, worrying about whether or not your employees get a good night’s sleep is not something you need to consider…or is it? With a new focus on overall employee health and well-being, many companies are waking up […]
EAP, Employee Engagement, Health, Healthy Living, Insights, Productivity, Wellness, Work-Life Balance
Demonstrating Wellness Program Success: Start with These Three Steps
Return on Investment or ROI is the holy grail of business measurement. It’s that thing that holds your feet to the fire and strikes fear in the hearts of some. Boards of directors demand reports on it, managers track results based on it, and employees race to contribute to it. The appeal of ROI reports […]
Wellness
4 Must-Haves for Employee Wellness Programs
Editor’s Note: Our second guest blogger for this month is Kembre Roberts, Manager for Employee Wellness at Southwest Airlines. She is no stranger to the corporate wellness world— before joining Southwest Airlines in 2011, her first 10 years in the industry were focused on designing corporate wellness initiatives and linking health plan savings to healthy lifestyles. We […]
Employee Engagement, Healthy Living, Insights, Well-Being, Wellness, Workplace Culture
How to Help Employees Make Wellness Changes That Stick
GPS tracking. Sleep monitoring. Step counting. With all their bells and whistles packaged in sleek, fashionable designs, it’s no surprise that fitness trackers such as Fitbit, Garmin and Jawbone have established such a strong presence in the world of wellness. Yet, while these products can effectively track various aspects of someone’s day — such as […]
Healthy Living, Uncategorized, Well-Being, Wellness