Introduction to Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
In this week’s article, we’ll look at a growing employee benefit: Employee Assistance Programs, namely:
1) What are they?
2) What benefits are included for your employees
3) How you benefit as a company for having an EAP
4) Key Features
5) How they can be implemented in your organization
What are EAPs?
Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are workplace initiatives designed to help employees address personal and professional issues that might affect their job performance, health, and well-being. These programs typically offer services such as digital counseling, mental health support, financial advice, and legal assistance.
If you know the company Better Help, it’s similar to that but taken out by your company for your employees.
What Benefits are Included
Broadley speaking, EAP services are broken down into two categories
1) Preventative Services
- professional stress
- work stress
- counselling & coaching services
- work-life balance support
2) Crisis Management
- confidential counselling for any crisis going on in your employees lives
- death of a family member
- substance abuse issues
- marital problems
How you benefit as a company for having an EAP
Mental wellbeing is key to a happy, healthy & productive workforce. Benefit as a company by implementing an EAP and reap the rewards:
- Support Employees– Resolve issues which negatively impact their health, performance and well-being
- Mental Wellness – Increased mental wellness
- Higher Productivity – EAPs have a proven postive impact on companies who take them
- Healthy Workspace – Create a healthy, postive & collaborative work environment
- Stand out – Create a diversified employee benefits program using it to recruit & retain staff
Key Features of EAPs
Get seamless end-to-end mental wellbeing programs that are localized across APAC and with over 22 different languages spoken by mental health professionals.
Track utilization rates of your staff through your integrate insights dashboard. Ensure your employees are taking advantage of their EAP through an initial onboarding seminar.
How an EAP can be Implemented
EAPs can either be:
1) Part of your Group Health Insurance
Some private health insurers build in EAP programs into their group health insurance benefits. That number will only continue to rise, but in our experience the utilization rates are quite low as the focus is usually on medical insurance benefits.
2) Standalone Program
Employee Benefits Asia has partned with leading EAP service providers in Asia Pacific who offer standardized or tailor-made plans to companies of all sizes.
If you don’t have an EAP program as part of your group health insurance, then speak with us about starting an EAP program.
