How Employee Assistance Programs Improve Workplace Well-being

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Meaningful Support For Life’s Most Demanding Moments

An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) can keep your employees’ work and life challenges from becoming larger issues. It can also help you retain and attract top-notch talent.

Unpredicted life events and daily stressors affect every person. An EAP program can help significantly improve your employees’ well-being, both at work and at home. Employee Assistance Programs can enhance quality of life and offer valuable resources to support individuals through everyday challenges. Keep reading to learn the ways an EAP can serve your business. Read this infographic (PDF) or view it below to learn the ways an EAP can serve your business.

How Employee Assistance Programs improve workplace well-being

Supporting employees during life’s most demanding moments

Enhancing employee benefit offerings with an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) supports whole-person health for employees’ work and life challenges — helping you retain and attract top notch talent.

Explore the benefits of an EAP for your employees and your business

Attract and keep top performers by offering more valuable and holistic employee benefits
Strengthen your management team with tools that empower a healthy workplace
Reduce costs and risk by providing counseling before employees need to use their behavioral health benefits
Help employees feel covered, protected, and confident at work and beyond

People want extra support from their employers

63% say their benefits package is a reason they stay with an employer¹
70% want their company to do more to support mental health²
67% would take a pay cut in exchange for increased mental wellness support²

A holistic approach to whole-person health

An EAP connects employees to confidential care in simple, effective, and affordable ways. With a strong and diverse network of care providers, it offers access to support for more than physical care, including emotional and financial assistance while people navigate life’s challenges.

Work and life resources

Money, budgeting, and identity theft protection
Legal services
Parenting tools and insights
Tips for a healthier lifestyle
High-quality child, elder, and pet care location services

Emotional well-being resources

Skills to help cope with stress, anxiety, and depression
Resources to deal with grief and loss
In-person or virtual visits with a licensed counselor
Digital tools to support emotional health and well-being

Promote and protect long-term well-being

You can seamlessly integrate an EAP into your health benefits, connecting your employees to a variety of services that promote emotional well-being, boost health outcomes, and help lower care costs.

Offer a robust EAP with the right resources to help people reach their best health while coping with life’s challenges
Provide manager and supervisor resources to communicate the value of your EAP and reinforce positive workplace culture
Discover how investing in employee well-being helps business outcomes and your bottom line

Want to learn more about Anthem’s offerings? Contact your representative to learn how an EAP can provide whole-person support for your workplace.

1 Limra: Employee Benefits Influence Worker Satisfaction But Lack of Awareness Could Undermine Their Impact (accessed April 2023): limra.com.

2 SHRM: Report: Managers Have Bigger Impact on Employee Mental Health than Therapists (accessed April 2023): shrm.com.