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EAP Evolution: Unlocking the full potential of Employee Assistance Programs
Airdate: February 5, 2025
Many employers may still operate under the misconception that Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) only provide mental health resources. Join us as we explore how modern EAPs are supporting not only mental but also physical, emotional, and financial well-being, the advantages of integrating EAPs into a broader employee wellness strategy, and practical steps for employers to enhance their EAP offerings and improve employee engagement and productivity.
Seeing Results: How vision benefits support workforce wellness and productivity
Airdate: January 29, 2025
Vision health is a crucial, yet often overlooked, element of workforce well-being. Join us to gain valuable insights on the impact of unmanaged vision issues on employee health and productivity, the advantages of offering vision care benefits to employees, and practical strategies for implementing or enhancing your organization’s vision plan offerings and engaging workers in using their benefits.
The Incoming White House Administration: Preparing for the potential impact on employee benefits
Airdate: January 22, 2025
Do you know how the recent election may impact employee benefits? Join us to learn how your organization can adapt proactively and help support your workforce through potential changes after the election. We’ll explore potential changes to taxes and healthcare policy, the future of paid leave laws, and how the election may affect student loan forgiveness and retirement savings.
Bright Beginnings: The role of dental benefits in promoting children and adolescents’ oral health
Airdate: January 15, 2025
Parents often prioritize their children’s oral health above their own. Join us as we discuss strategies for educating employees about the importance of early preventive dental care, practical tips for increasing the effectiveness of dental benefits communications, insights on promoting better dental benefits utilization, and handling harmful oral health trends and myths promoted on social media.
Building Healthy Habits: Daily decisions to stay on track
Airdate: January 8, 2025
Habits are decisions that we make every day. Join us as our speaker discusses how habits can impact how we live and work, and shares tips you can pass along to workers at your organization on ways to develop and stick to new habits that support their goals.
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Top Benefits Trends for 2025: Prioritizing workforce well-being in the new year
Airdate: December 18, 2024
Burnout, financial stress, caregiving responsibilities, and poor health habits continue to challenge employers seeking to improve their workforce’s wellness, productivity, and morale. Join us as we explore the leading trends that employers must address in 2025, including comprehensive well-being benefits to support workers’ minds, bodies, and wallets, tips for supporting employees’ work-life balance, strategies for more effective enrollment and decision-support and ways to leverage technology.
Quarterly PFML Update: The latest from across the US
Airdate: December 11, 2024
States continue to pass new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) laws, providing employees additional protections and benefits when a leave is needed. Join us for the fourth quarterly PFML update of the year. Our speakers will discuss the current PFML landscape, what’s new by state including eligibility, benefits, and reasons for leave, and common scenarios that can cause issues for employers.
Looking Ahead: Supporting employees through organizational changes
Airdate: December 4, 2024
Change can be hard — and major shifts at work like organizational restructuring or workforce reduction can bring up emotions like uncertainty, helplessness, and fear. Join us for a discussion about why change elicits strong reactions, tips on how to constructively navigate ambiguity in the workplace, and how to provide resources and support to help employees develop resilience.
Claiming Your Peace: Managing mental wellness during the holidays
Airdate: November 27, 2024
Expectations, societal pressures, and time constraints are greater than ever during the holidays. Join us as our speakers provide tactical tools to help you focus on your mental well-being so you can enjoy the holiday season, help you identify symptoms of stress and anxiety, and explores setting boundaries and managing expectations to restore order and mental wellness.
Accessibility and Awareness: A deep dive into the ADA
Airdate: November 20, 2024
Determining when protections provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to the workplace is not always an easy task for employers. Join us for our absence management fundamentals on the ADA where our speakers will address the following areas, a deep dive on the fundamentals of the ADA law, understanding how to recognize, address, and respond to an ADA accommodation request, a practical review of common errors and confusing scenarios and other leave types that can be applied alongside the ADA.
Breathing Easier: How to help employees stamp out tobacco use
Airdate: November 13, 2024
The use of tobacco in products like cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and chewing tobacco is linked to problems with oral — and overall — health. Join us as our speakers discuss how employers can provide tobacco cessation benefits and support programs to help reduce tobacco-related risk among their workers and promote better oral and overall health.
Caregiving’s Hidden Realities: Helping workers balance their career and caregiving responsibilities
Airdate: November 6, 2024
Nearly three in four (73%) U.S. employees are caregivers. However, given that 32% of workers have left a job due to caregiving responsibilities, many employers are failing to support the significant time and energy that workers must devote to caring for their loved ones. Join our guest speaker as she discusses insights on what employers may not know or realize about the caregiving experience, practical strategies for supporting your caregiving colleagues, and how creating a culture of care is beneficial for both employee wellness and organizational success.
Mind, Body, and Wallet®: Providing comprehensive wellness benefits for a thriving workforce
Airdate: October 30, 2024
Employers know it’s important to offer a robust benefits package; in fact, more than 80% of employers say supporting workers’ well-being has grown in importance over the last year. Join us as our speakers discuss strategies for how to offer a cohesive benefits experience, leading to higher levels of benefits use and ongoing employee engagement, the value of integrating core products and wellness solutions with disability and leave, and insights on how a holistic, integrated experience for wellness offerings leads to better outcomes for employees — including productivity, presenteeism, and retention.
Women’s Health at Work: How to support employees going through menopause
Airdate: October 23, 2024
Menopause is a natural process occurring in women around the ages of 45-55 — which also happens to be the fastest growing workforce segment and the time at which an individual is most likely in or moving into a leadership position at work. Join us as our speaker discusses the impacts that menopause can have on women's experience in the workplace, strategies for providing support and accommodations to those going through menopause, and the organizational benefits to be gained from supporting workers with menopause.
Oral Health, Eye Health, and Diabetes: How they’re connected, and the importance of preventive care
Airdate: October 16, 2024
The number of Americans with diabetes has tripled in the past three decades, and it’s estimated that diabetes claims cost organizations approximately $245 billion per year. Our guest speakers address an overview of the disease, its impact on oral and eye health, and the importance of preventive care and ongoing education about dental and vision benefits.
Family Matters: How to support the mental wellness of your employees and their families
Airdate: October 9, 2024
Mental health challenges in children can affect the whole family, as more than 50% of working parents miss work to support their children’s mental health concerns. Join us as we discuss the importance of family mental health and its potential impact on work, how employees can more constructively communicate with their loved ones, and the resources to help employees find the right balance between work life and home life.
Neurodiversity in the Workforce: How employers can help build a more neuro-inclusive organization
Airdate: October 2, 2024
Join us to discover practical, actionable strategies to foster neuro-inclusion in your organization and on your team. This webinar will define neurodiversity and discuss the strengths and challenges of neurodivergent individuals. We will also cover strategies for identifying and reducing unconscious bias and tips for making meetings more accessible to neurodiverse colleagues and clients, and effective communication tools.
Preventing Isolation in Remote Work Environments: What employers need to know
Airdate: September 25, 2024
Learn about the benefits and challenges of working remotely, discuss the difference between social isolation and loneliness, and outline strategies that promote mental wellness and meaningful engagement across all types of work arrangements.
Life Insurance and Financial Wellness: Helping employees understand the connection
Airdate: September 18, 2024
Learn about the benefits of group life insurance for both employers and employees, how life insurance needs change throughout various life stages, and how it works with other products and what new features to expect.
Quarterly PFML Update: The latest from across the US
Airdate: September 11, 2024
Join us for the third quarterly PFML update of the year. Our speakers will address an overview of the current PFML landscape and insights on how many employers are expanding leave policies to better attract and retain talent.
Mental Wellness Benefits ROI: How to prove returns on mental health investments
Airdate: August 28, 2024
While employer attitudes toward workforce mental health have seen vast improvements in the past few years, with American workers’ mental health rates still declining, there’s more to be done. Our speakers discuss how employers can measure the success of their mental wellness programs and take steps to improve its ROI.
FMLA FAQs: Exploring gray areas and confusing scenarios
Airdate: August 21, 2024
This session will cover many of your most frequently asked questions from previous FMLA webinars, including common misconceptions and gray-area scenarios. Our speakers address topics including calendaring and timelines, managing intermittent leaves, and eligibility, coordinating leave types, and leave policies around remote workers.
Benefits Technology Trends: What’s next in the benefits technology revolution
Airdate: August 14, 2024
The digitalization of employee benefits surged over the past five years. Organizations are increasingly turning to technology to manage the ever-changing world of employee benefits. However, since the average organization has many benefits administration systems in place, managing HR tech can get unwieldy fast. Organizations may not be seeing all the benefits tech can provide if they’re not integrated.
Breathing Easier: How to help employees stamp out tobacco use
Airdate: August 7, 2024
The use of tobacco in products like cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and chewing tobacco is linked to problems with oral — and overall — health. Learn how employers can provide tobacco cessation benefits and support programs to reduce tobacco-related risk among their workers and promote better oral and overall health.
Enrollment Case Studies: An inside look at how to optimize your enrollment strategy
Airdate: July 31, 2024
The workforce and dynamics around the country are changing, making it more challenging than ever to develop a cohesive enrollment strategy. Join us to gain a real-life look at the ups and downs of enrollment management and how to optimize this process for both employees and the organization.
Making the Right Connections: Helping younger employees make the right benefits choices
Airdate: July 24, 2024
When it comes to providing insurance benefits and communicating with employees, it shouldn’t be a one-size-fits-all approach. Younger workers in particular need a targeted approach to learning about and enrolling in their benefits, especially once they turn 26 and aren’t eligible for their parents’ plans.
Streamlining Leave Management: Considerations for first-time outsourcers
Airdate: July 17, 2024
The number of employers outsourcing their short-term disability (STD) and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) administration has more than doubled since 2012 (source: 2022 Guardian Absence Study). These businesses were motivated to outsource largely due to the growing complexity of ever-evolving leave regulations and the expanding state paid leave laws. But how should organizations go about it?
The Keys to Success: Best practices for benefits engagement
Airdate: July 10, 2024
Is your organization ready for open enrollment? It may be difficult to navigate how to achieve enrollment goals like benefit education and engagement while keeping employees feeling supported and satisfied with their experience. Join us for the first of a three-part Enrollment Boot Camp series.
Owning Your Oral Health: The payoff of preventive care
Airdate: July 3, 2024
Helping US workers take charge of their oral health by offering — and encouraging the use of — preventive care benefits can have far-reaching advantages for both employers and employees. Having dental coverage that helps defrays costs tends to incentivize people to visit the dentist regularly, and greater utilization of preventive care leads to not only lower out-of-pocket dental costs for workers and their families, but lower employer claims costs as well.
Grin and Grow: Nurturing oral and mental health in teens
Airdate: June 26, 2024
Keeping adolescents healthy and happy is a top priority for parents and caregivers. At a time when cognitive, physical, and emotional development are in overdrive, the bidirectional relationship between oral health and mental wellness is more important than ever.
Quarterly PFML Update: The latest from across the US
Airdate: June 12, 2024
Join us for the second quarterly PFML update of the year. Our speakers will discuss the current PFML landscape, updates on states such as Maryland, Virginia, New York, and Oregon, and an overview of the NCOIL model and how it's helping employers develop comprehensive leave policies.
Road to Recovery: Hospital indemnity and accident insurance
Airdate: June 5, 2024
Unplanned expenses stemming from a hospitalization due to sickness or an accident can have a devastating impact on workers’ financial stability. Hospital indemnity and accident insurance can help provide a layer of financial protection by helping you cover out-of-pocket costs associated with unexpected medical emergencies or qualifying accidents. Supplemental health benefits do not provide major medical coverage.
Closing the Savings Gap: Helping younger employees be more knowledgeable savers
Airdate: May 29, 2024
Nearly half (45%) of Gen Z workers rate their financial health as “fair” or “poor.” In part, that’s because they’re not saving enough: more than a third (34%) of full-time working members of Gen Z lack a retirement account. Unfortunately, this has negative repercussions on both their financial and mental health. Sixty-one percent of Gen Zers say money/finances is their top source of stress in life.
Owning Your Oral Health: The payoff of preventive care
Airdate: May 22, 2024
Helping US workers take charge of their oral health by offering — and encouraging the use of — preventive care benefits can have far-reaching advantages for both employers and employees. Having dental coverage that helps defray costs tends to incentivize people to visit the dentist regularly, and greater utilization of preventive care leads to not only lower out-of-pocket dental costs for workers and their families, but lower employer claims costs as well.
Creating a Culture of Care: How managers can help support caregivers in the workplace
Airdate: May 15, 2024
More than 70% of today’s workforce balances caregiving on top of their day-to-day jobs — often spending 20-40 hours a week taking care of a family member or loved one. The intensity of caregiving responsibilities can have a profound impact on a colleague’s productivity, engagement, attendance, and focus. Navigating this kind of journey can be complex for even the most seasoned teams, managers, and employees.
Attracting and Retaining Working Moms: How employers can support working moms’ success
Airdate: May 8, 2024
Working Americans almost unanimously agree (91%) that working moms bring unique skills to leadership roles. However only about 28% of c-suite members across the country are women. What can organizations do to keep working moms in the workforce?
A Smooth Transition: Supporting workers’ mental health during and after disability leave
Airdate: May 1, 2024
Employees who take a disability leave from work may encounter any number of challenges — from coping with a short- or long-term injury, illness, or condition to budgeting for changes in income to managing their emotional health throughout a time of change, stress, or difficulty. Providing resources for employees during and when they return from a disability leave may help alleviate pressure on them making for a smoother return to work process. Find out how employers can better support workers with the mental health resources they need during periods of disability leave and the transition back to work.
Supplemental Support: How supplemental health insurance products have evolved to help support families’ well-being
Airdate: April 24, 2024
Facing challenges like high living expenses and rising out-of-pocket medical costs, employees may be under a significant amount of financial stress. Many don’t realize that supplemental health insurance products have evolved to include additional common conditions that affect individuals of all ages, from childhood sports injuries to infertility to early Alzheimer’s. This support can help make a significant difference in family members’ physical and financial well-being.
FMLA 201: A deeper dive into administering the law
Airdate: April 17, 2024
Explore sample situations in FMLA administration as we go beyond the basics, tackling common “gray area” scenarios, to help equip you with practical insights and strategies for navigating the complex administration of FMLA.
Family Matters: How to support the mental wellness of your employees and their families
Airdate: April 10, 2024
Mental health challenges in children can affect the whole family, as more than 50% of working parents miss work to support their children’s mental health concerns. Join us as we discuss the importance of family mental health and its potential impact on work, how employees can more constructively communicate with their loved ones, and the resources to help employees find the right balance between work life and home life.
Money Talks: The importance of communicating with employees about financial literacy
Airdate: April 3, 2024
Only 57% of US adults are financially literate.1 Not only does that cost them an estimated $1,819 annually in financial errors, workers who are stressed about money typically spend 3 or more hours per week worrying about or dealing with personal finance issues.2
Quarterly PFML Update: The latest from across the US
Airdate: March 27, 2024
States continue to pass new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) laws, providing employees additional protections and benefits when a leave is needed. Employers are looking for ways to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving laws.
Bringing Technology to Supplemental Health Benefits: How AI and other tech tools can boost workforce well-being
Airdate: March 20, 2024
While supplemental health benefits adoption rates have increased in recent years, many organizations hesitate to offer them due to perceived administrative hurdles. Fortunately, new benefits technologies — such as decision-support tools — are being introduced every day to make implementing and enrolling in these highly valued benefits easier than ever before.
Double Duty: How employers can help support caregiving women
Airdate: March 6, 2024
One hundred million US adults are currently providing caregiving support for a parent, child, or other loved one. Within this group, a disproportionate number are women. Many caregiving employees must cut back or drop out of the workforce entirely due to the difficulty of pulling “double duty” — caring for someone on top of working full time. This means an outsized number of women’s finances and careers are negatively impacted by their caregiving duties, and the setbacks can be long-lasting.
The Evolution of EAPs: How these services provide holistic well-being support to employees
Airdate: February 28, 2024
Employee assistance programs (EAPs) give workers access to highly professional, confidential resources for personal concerns like mental health, caregiving responsibilities, and even work-life balance. But workers may be unaware of what they include, or have misconceptions around confidentiality, cost, and access that can keep them from fully exploring a wealth of resources that could help them in times of stress, difficulty, or future planning.
FMLA 101: Mastering the basics of the law
Airdate: February 21, 2024
Thirty-one years after it was enacted, many employers still misunderstand the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993. The fundamentals of the FMLA proved more complicated than anticipated, and employers report that it is now more difficult than in previous years to approve leaves and coordinate leave types.1
Early Smiles: The importance of helping kids build good oral health habits
Airdate: February 14, 2024
Kids’ oral health practices can impact families' daily lives — in more ways than one. For example, the CDC reports that, on average, 34 million school hours are lost each year to emergency dental care. And when a kid is at the dentist, their parent may be missing work. This is just one reason why encouraging positive oral health habits in kids, like visiting the dentist regularly, can help set them — and the next generation of workers — up for a lifetime of better oral health and overall lower dental costs.
The Guardian Anytime Service Portal: Simplifying benefits management
Airdate: February 7, 2024
The Guardian Anytime service portal is a one-stop solution for managing your Guardian employee benefits. But many clients are unaware of its capabilities and how it can help solve benefits management-related challenges.
Facing Financial Fragility: Exploring the decline in workers’ financial well-being
Airdate: January 31, 2024
Guardian research shows that the top three factors causing US workers the most stress are all finance-related — and this pressure has wider-reaching implications than a slim wallet. In fact, money-related pressures have an outsized impact on overall well-being, with recent dramatic declines in workers’ self-reported financial health contributing to lower rates of physical and emotional health, as well.1
1 Facing Financial Fragility: How changes to the economic landscape are impacting American’s wallets and habits, Guardian, 2024
Standing Up and Stepping In: A modern look at caregivers in the US
Airdate: January 24, 2024
With people living longer and a rise in the rates of serious illnesses, 43% more people currently split their time between working and caregiving than did just four years ago. On a macro scale, this puts a strain on the labor market that costs the US economy around $44 billion annually. On a personal scale, this also causes significant stress for the caregivers themselves, and our latest research report found that fewer than half of workers have communicated about their caregiving responsibilities with their managers.
Well-being, Well-defined: Top benefits trends for 2024
Airdate: December 20, 2023
American workers’ well-being sharply declined in 2023, largely driven by stress around their finances, which also leads to poorer mental health. In addition to lower productivity, this has had repercussions on employee loyalty and morale. As 2024 approaches, it’s an ideal time to think about re-assessing your organization’s approach benefits and culture to better support workers’ well-being.
Money and your Mind: Confidence on the path to financial wellness
Airdate: December 13, 2023
Feeling good about your finances can be challenging, especially in today’s stressful and uncertain economic climate. For many, even thinking about money can elicit feelings of anxiety and be overwhelming.
PFML Across the US: The latest on state PFML laws
Airdate: December 6, 2023
Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) laws, which broaden eligibility and reasons for leave, continue to be passed by many states. With an increase in employees who are working remotely and expanding into multiple states, they need to understand the Paid Family and Medical Leave programs that exist in those states, including updates for 2024.
Mind, Body, and Wallet™: Factors impacting employees’ well-being, and how employers can help
Airdate: November 29, 2023
American workers’ well-being is at a low point across all aspects of wellness: mental, physical, and financial. And despite more organizations saying they prioritize employees’ well-being, the number of workers who say their employers care about them has declined 25% since 2022.
Claiming Your Peace: Managing mental wellness during the holidays
Airdate: November 15, 2023
Expectations, societal pressures, and time constraints run high during the holidays. For many, this can lead to increased stress, anxiety, and the exacerbation of already existing mental health issues and distress.
Childcare Challenges: Helping today’s parents thrive in the modern workplace
Airdate: November 8, 2023
Working families need access to quality, convenient, and affordable childcare – whether they’re working on-site, at-home, or a mix of both. In fact, 4 in 10 working parents rank childcare resources as one of the benefits they’d find most valuable in the workplace.
Oral Health, Eye Health, and Diabetes: How they’re connected, and the importance of preventive care
Airdate: November 1, 2023
The way we work and our workforce itself has changed rapidly. To successfully navigate the increasing complexity of leave, it’s critical for employers to keep pace with the latest trends in employer leave policies, paid leave, and more.
The Evolution of Paid Leave: Employer policies for today’s workforce
Airdate: October 25, 2023
Following the pandemic, the way we work and our workforce itself has changed rapidly. To successfully navigate this new era and continue to retain and attract top talent, it’s critical for employers to keep pace with the latest trends in flexible work, paid time off (PTO), paid leave, and more.
Coping with Chronic Medical Conditions: Support tools for better well-being
Airdate: October 18, 2023
For those living with a chronic health condition, managing day-to-day tasks while facing the uncertainty of their illness can take a toll on both their mental and physical health. This impacts not only individuals with chronic conditions themselves, but their loved ones as well.
Critical Connections: Helping employees get the support they need following a cancer diagnosis
Airdate: October 11, 2023
Being diagnosed with a serious illness, including cancer, is a life-changing event. Even if an employee has access to a full suite of benefits to support their physical, mental, and financial wellness, accessing them can be overwhelming — especially if they don’t know what coverage they have or have forgotten they have coverage in the first place. Fortunately, employers can help ease the burden on employees during a stressful time by integrating their benefits so that they can get the support they need as quickly as possible.
Special Needs Caregiving: Supporting a child with mental health and other challenges
Airdate: October 4, 2023
Mental health challenges and other disabilities within a family unit can carry over into the workplace, resulting in employee stress, lack of focus, and missed workdays. Parents who are experiencing these challenges at home carry a heavy burden, but their workplaces often lack the resources to support them. During an era when mental health among children and adolescents is declining, providing support to these employees is critical.
Beyond 20/20: The connection between eye health and overall well-being
Airdate: September 27, 2023
The eyes are not just the windows to the soul; they are also a vital part of a person’s overall health. Poor eye health or untreated vision conditions can impact physical well-being, just as diseases or chronic conditions can affect eye health. Eye exams are a key part of taking care of your preventive health, and eye doctors play an important role in catching eye diseases that can affect overall well-being.
Accessibility and Awareness: A deep dive into the ADA
Airdate: September 20, 2023
Determining when protections provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to the workplace is not always an easy task for employers. This is particularly true when evaluating accommodation requests. A greater challenge arises as employers evaluate the request for leave as an accommodation in a remote work environment.
Prepared and Protected: The role of employer-sponsored life insurance in financial wellness
Airdate: September 13, 2023
Americans increasingly rely on the life insurance coverage they obtain through work: 73% of workers get life insurance through their employer in 2023 compared to 67% in 2012. But overall, life insurance ownership in the US has been trending down for decades, including in employer-sponsored plans (Annual Guardian Workplace Benefits Study, 2023). In the event of a premature death, this could have potentially devastating effects on their household’s financial wellness.
Suicide Awareness and Prevention: Strategies to support individuals in crisis
Airdate: September 6, 2023
Suicide results in one death every 11 minutes. Understanding the strategies to support individuals experiencing a mental health crisis can be helpful for those who know someone – whether at home or in the workplace – who has struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts.
Benefits Marketing 101: Creative strategies to increase benefits engagement
Airdate: August 30, 2023
Want to help increase employee participation in benefits, but unsure how to effectively educate employees about their benefits package? Think like a marketer. Boosting employee engagement with their benefits requires employing creative strategies and a tailored approach to communications.
Helping the Helpers: A look at caregivers and how we can better serve them
Airdate: August 23, 2023
Many working Americans provide care for their loved ones. According to the AARP, an estimated 38 million people, or about 11.5% of the population, were engaged in caregiving in 2023. Unfortunately, caregiving can take a toll on individuals' physical, mental, social, and financial health, with only 22% of caregivers reporting high overall well-being. How can employers help support their caregiver employees?
Back to School Anxiety: Addressing students’ unease around returning to the classroom
Airdate: August 16, 2023
As students prepare to head back to school, several factors may be contributing to increased anxiety, including social media pressures and fear around school shootings. Despite these stressors, there are mechanisms to help handling these emotions.
Ready, Set, Start-up: Opportunities to help enrich benefits in the tech industry
Airdate: August 9, 2023
Overall, the tech industry offers progressive benefits and a positive workplace culture. However, this doesn’t hold true for all types of tech companies. In particular, small start-ups don’t generally offer the variety of core benefits that larger, more mature tech firms do. Tech firms’ approach to benefits also varies significantly based on location and type of product or service they sell.
The Value of Absence Integration: The latest data and best practices
Airdate: August 2, 2023
Guardian’s latest absence study finds that while employers have shown improvement in adopting leave management best practices over the past decade, new adoption of some best practices – particularly integrating Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) into existing leave management systems – still has room to grow.¹ This can lead to inefficiencies and higher costs for both employees and HR staff.
Keys to Success: Putting benefits enrollment strategy into practice
Airdate: July 26, 2023
After a comprehensive benefits enrollment strategy is developed, employers may wonder how best to implement it. It may be difficult to understand how to achieve desired outcomes while also increasing employees’ engagement with their benefits. Hear from HR leaders and benefits experts on their firsthand experiences implementing successful enrollment strategies.
Quarterly PFML Update: Exploring Minnesota’s new law and voluntary plans
Airdate: July 19, 2023
An increasing number of states have passed Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) laws, with Minnesota being the latest as of May 2023. As more states offer PFML, we’re also seeing a rise in the number of states offering voluntary PFL plans.
High Tech, High Touch: Decision-support tools to improve benefits decision-making
Airdate: July 12, 2023
In this second webinar of our three-part Enrollment Boot Camp series, guests from Guardian’s enrollment partners will be on hand to explore how investing in decision support can help improve employees’ benefits decision-making and lead to greater employee satisfaction.
Small and Resilient: Prioritizing workforce well-being in a challenging economic environment
Airdate: July 5, 2023
Small organizations have faced a number of recent challenges that have made staying in business difficult, including Covid-19, inflation, supply chain issues, and the continued rise of interest rates. Additionally, the difficulties around attracting and retaining qualified talent have only compounded matters. To ensure survivability and reduce employee turnover, small businesses seem to be keenly aware of the need to re-evaluate their employee benefits and workplace policies, strengthening those that focus on empathy, inclusivity and flexibility.
Mouth Matters, Part 3: Tying dental plan design to employee well-being
Airdate: June 28, 2023
Dental benefits play an important role in supporting employees’ overall health. But if a plan doesn’t adequately fit workers’ needs, if they don’t understand how and what’s covered, or if costs are too high, that can affect utilization and, by extension, their well-being.
Benefits Marketing 101: Creative strategies to increase benefits engagement
Airdate: June 21, 2023
Want to help increase employee participation in benefits, but unsure how to effectively educate employees about their benefits package? Think like a marketer. Boosting employee engagement with their benefits requires employing creative strategies and a tailored approach to communications.
FMLA 201: A deeper dive into administering the law
Airdate: June 14, 2023
Knowing the basics of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is insufficient to have a full understanding of this complex legislation, especially when it comes to “gray area” scenarios that arise when administering it.
Help Wanted: How mental health benefits can help improve workforce well-being and loyalty
Airdate: June 7, 2023
While about 73% of employers believe they do an excellent job addressing workforce mental wellness, fewer than half of workers agree. Amid rapidly rising mental health-related disability claims and costs, it's important for employers to take a more proactive approach to supporting their employees' mental wellness.
Income Protection: The role of disability insurance in financial wellness
Airdate: May 31, 2023
Disability insurance provides income replacement in the event someone is unable to work due to an illness or disability. But there are many misconceptions around what disability insurance is and how it works. How can employers help their workers understand the role of disability insurance in protecting their income?
State Paid Leave: A national update on PFML
Airdate: May 24, 2023
As paid family and medical leave (PFML) legislation increases across the nation, the complex set of regulations must be tracked so that organizations are adequately prepared for the new laws. Companies with large numbers of remote and hybrid workers have a particular need to understand current state PFML laws, as compliance depends on the employees’ work location rather than the home state of the company.
Stability and Support: Critical illness and cancer insurance
Airdate: May 17, 2023
With 62% of all personal bankruptcies related to medical bills, workers who experience a critical illness like cancer can face serious financial difficulties as they recover. Critical illness and cancer insurance are valuable tools in helping alleviate the financial burden that can impact workers’ financial protection when faced with a devasting major illness.
The Value of Disability Insurance: An insider’s look
Airdate: May 10, 2023
One in four workers will be out of work for an extended period due to a serious illness or injury during their working lives. Statistics like that point to why disability insurance is important, but don’t shed light on what workers go through when they experience a disability and the many types of value disability policies can bring.
Leading with Compassion: Supporting employees through crisis
Airdate: May 3, 2023
Do you have questions about how to handle an employee who is experiencing a mental health crisis or even how to handle emergency situations at work? In this webinar, we will help you understand the importance of effective leadership in challenging times, share common workplace stressors, and best practices for addressing them.
Mouth Matters, Part 2: Improving workforce oral health habits
Airdate: April 26, 2023
Oral health problems can impact your employees’ mental, financial, and physical well-being, which in turn can impact performance and productivity. As a result, developing and maintaining good oral hygiene habits is crucial. How can employers help educate their employees and support better oral health to create a positive impact on the workplace and to ensure employees are coming to work feeling their best?
Road to Recovery: Hospital indemnity and accident insurance
Airdate: April 19, 2023
Unplanned expenses stemming from a hospitalization due to sickness or an accident can have a devastating impact on workers’ financial stability. Hospital indemnity and accident insurance can help provide a layer of financial protection by helping you cover out-of-pocket costs associated with unexpected medical emergencies or qualifying accidents. Supplemental health benefits do not provide major medical coverage.
FMLA FAQs: A deep dive into top questions and gray-area scenarios
Airdate: April 12, 2023
By popular demand, we are presenting an additional session exploring the details of the Family Medical Leave Act and how to apply it. This session will cover many of your most frequently asked questions from previous FMLA webinars, including common misconceptions and gray-area scenarios.
Developing Differently: Neurodiversity at work and at home
Airdate: April 5, 2023
Whether you employ someone who is neurodivergent or care for one at home, there are challenging issues that can arise whether you are an employer, colleague, or family member. No matter your relationship to a neurodivergent person, you may not feel equipped with the right information to help manage the manifestations of the condition.
Quantum Leap: Real-time connectivity is the next frontier in employee benefits administration
Airdate: March 29, 2023
As employers look to expand their use of HR technology to help save both time and money while more effectively supporting employees’ benefits experience, improving benefits administration technology and processes are key components of their strategy.
Mouth Matters: The connection between oral health and overall well-being
Airdate: March 22, 2023
Because we visit both dentists and primary care doctors, many people have a misconception that oral and physical health are separate entities. However, they're not. The mouth is the primary access point for the nutrition and oxygen every living body needs to survive.
Healthy Protection: The role of supplemental health insurance in financial wellness
Airdate: March 15, 2023
As costs for hospital stays and other medical treatments continue to climb, supplemental health benefits – such as hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness – can be a helpful source of financial protection when dealing with unforeseen medical challenges. Given that half of U.S. workers have less than $2,500 saved for a medical emergency, these types of insurance are increasingly in demand as they can help complement medical insurance to provide additional financial protection.¹ Supplemental health benefits do not provide major medical coverage.
Streamlining Leave Management: The importance of outsourcing
Airdate: March 8, 2023
The number of employers outsourcing their short-term disability (STD) and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) administration has more than doubled since 2012. These businesses were motivated to outsource largely due to the growing complexity of pandemic-related leave regulations and the expanding state paid leave laws. But how should organizations go about it?
Caring for Caregivers: Coping skills to fight caregiver burnout
Airdate: March 1, 2023
While rewarding, being a caregiver can also bring a complex set of varied emotions ranging from frustration and exhaustion to isolation and loneliness. It’s no surprise, therefore, that burnout and other mental health issues are common among caregivers. Exploring how to navigate both the positive and sometimes negative aspects of caregiving can help offset some of the challenges that caregivers face.
FMLA 101: Mastering the fundamentals
Airdate: February 22, 2023
30 years after it was enacted, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 is still misunderstood by many employers. The basics of the FMLA proved more complicated than anticipated, and employers report that it is now more difficult than in previous years to approve leaves and coordinate leave types.
Small and Resilient: Prioritizing workforce well-being in a challenging economic environment
Airdate: February 15, 2023
Small organizations have faced a number of recent challenges that have made staying in business difficult, including Covid-19, inflation, supply chain issues, and the continued rise of interest rates. Additionally, the difficulties around attracting and retaining qualified talent have only compounded matters. To ensure survivability and reduce employee turnover, small businesses seem to be keenly aware of the need to re-evaluate their employee benefits and workplace policies, strengthening those that focus on empathy, inclusivity and flexibility.
Quantum Leap: Real-time connectivity is the next frontier in employee benefits administration
Airdate: February 8, 2023
As employers look to expand their use of HR technology to help save both time and money while more effectively supporting employees’ benefits experience, improving benefits administration technology and processes are key components of their strategy.
New Era, New Values: Workers seek empathy in a post-pandemic world
Airdate: February 1, 2023
The pandemic and other monumental global events greatly impacted employees’ expectations and mindset regarding workplace mental health, benefits, and well-being. As a result of the challenges brought about by the shifting landscape, employers desiring to achieve higher levels of success in attracting and retaining loyal employees are re-evaluating workplace strategies and policies to help make workers feel supported.