Well-Being Boosts Company Output

How To Increase Employee Well-Being And Boost Company Output

/ Financial Health, Mental Health, Wellness and Wellbeing

Well-Being Boosts Company Output Management consulting titan, Deloitte, has found that well-being boosts company output. Particularly interesting is the finding that “best-performing companies on financial metrics were around 11 times more likely to offer holistic well-being policies”. Taken simply as a form of investment, holistic well-being policies make dollars and sense. It’s pretty rare these […]

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small business employee wellbeing

Employee well-being is an important small business priority – The Washington Post

/ Financial Health, Wellness and Wellbeing

Small Business Employee Wellbeing For decades “workplace wellness” programs have been little more than mini-physicals and ,until recently, focused on Corporate America. Small business employee wellbeing is demanding attention in this economy and the demand is for more than mini physicals. Work – Life balance has long been a concern. More people and organizations appreciate

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gut health affects your brain

Here’s How Your Gut Microbiome Actually Effects Your Brain – The Chalkboard

/ Gut Health, Mental Health

Gut Health Affects Your Brain More and more research shows that gut health affects your brain. Often overlooked in healthcare, the gut microbiome is slowly moving onto center stage. It will be interesting to see food as medicine where food prescriptions may replace pharmaceuticals for mental health and other areas. TRUST YOUR GUT, but actually —

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Employee Financial Well Being

Why Leaders Need To Look After Their Employees’ Financial Well-Being

/ Financial Health, Lifestyle

Employee Financial Well Being Employers should adopt employee financial well being as part of their initiatives to improve workplace health. Stress from financials impacts a significant part of the workforce according to new research. Do you have anyone in your team who is out of sorts? Perhaps they look overly tired or seem withdrawn? Are

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friendship helps well-being

Friendship is important to well-being, especially during the holidays – The Washington Post

/ Loneliness, Wellness and Wellbeing

Friendship Helps Well-Being The Holidays can be stressful. While it may be obvious to some, researchers have found that friendship helps well-being especially during the Holidays. For many of us, especially those without family nearby, spending time with friends can be a meaningful way to celebrate the holidays. As fewer people opt for marriage, friendships

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2017 us life expectancy declined

U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I – The Washington Post

/ Aging, Mental Health

2017 US Life Expectancy Declined 2017 us life expectancy declined despite spending more money on healthcare overall and per capita than any other nation. The US has plenty of knowledge and research that social determinants of health account for 80% or more of our health, yet we spend well over 90% of our healthcare dollars

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Protecting Holiday Mental Health

Protecting Holiday Mental Health: 7 Ways To Manage The Holidays

/ Mental Health

Protecting Holiday Mental Health In the 1965 cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown laments the commercialism and stress of the Christmas season to budding psychologist, Lucy. She is able to relate with her own sentiments: “I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that. It happens to me

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Workplace Wellness Can Backfire

Workplace Wellness Can Backfire – MarketWatch

/ Fitness, Wellness and Wellbeing

Workplace Wellness Can Backfire Too often workplace wellness programs are miniaturized clinical visits, with focus on symptomatic vital statistics like blood pressure and not the social determinants of health. The result is that workplace wellness can backfire and produce poor health results and an even more toxic work environment. Not every company wellness program works

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HHS Wants More Medicare Advantage Services

/ Chronic Disease, Environment, Health Consumer

HHS Wants More Medicare Advantage Services Secretary Azar seems to be pushing for more prevention and better health as HHS wants more Medicare Advantage services. These services are not just more clinical visits or prescriptions or procedures. Secretary Azar wants to keep seniors out of the hospital not just to avoid costs but to “protect

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