How employee benefits can help support your workforce’s physical health
Our report Mind, Body, and Wallet: Workforce well-being in the pandemic era found that even though 3 in 4 working Americans believe that maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important, only 1 in 4 workers feel that they are successfully doing the things that support their physical health — like exercising or eating a healthy diet.1
As an employer, you can help support the physical health of your workforce through:
Building workforce resilience
While more than 3 in 5 companies report that they are doing a good job supporting employees’ physical health — encouraging fitness, weight management, and healthy eating habits — fewer than 2 in 5 employees say that their organization’s current benefits address their physical health well. Employers have an opportunity to build a resilient workforce by encouraging healthy habits and offering workplace benefits that promote physical well-being and prevent disability and illness.
Have a plan to respond if something should happen to your workforce
Every year, around five percent of US employees will experience a short-term disability due to illness, injury, or pregnancy. In 2021, more than 2 out of 4 full-time US employees (54 percent) don’t have disability insurance. Platforms to help you manage the complicated legislation around employee leave, and benefits like disability insurance — which can help your employees to manage if they became sick or injured and were unable to work — can help keep your workforce prepared.
Leave management can be complicated. Learn more about ways to support your employees’ leaves by providing clear guidance and stay up-to-date with timely information on the latest leave law.
Reports
- Read more about how absence management changed during COVID-19 and how it will continue to evolve moving forward in our report Absence Management Redefined.
Articles:
Webinars
- Absence academy webinar series
- Absence Management Redefined: During the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Evaluate your absence management program with our scorecard.
Disability insurance provides partial income for employees that are too sick or injured to work. It can also play a role in supporting the physical well-being of your employees and can help their recovery and return to the workforce.
It can be challenging to keep up with the rapidly changing leave landscape of the coronavirus pandemic. Stay informed with up-to-date information on the evolving legislation.
This webinar looks at the key ingredients that can help contribute to a robust hiring and retention strategy for people with disabilities.
Learn about the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) new standards established to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus and reiterate the importance of employer-mandated vaccinations.
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