To help mitigate employee stress levels, the number of employers offering stress management programs has grown in recent years.
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has called on governments to step up and provide adequate care and facilities for the mentally ill.
The single most unappreciated asset in the design and management of employer-sponsored health benefit plans is transactional-level claims data. In addition to the more obvious benefit of optimizing the financial performance of the plan, the less intuitive value of accessing and utilizing transactional-level claims data is its utility as a strategic planning tool and measuring return on investment. What makes the set of transactional-level claims data even more exciting in 2013 is the ability to more easily integrate drug claims (by far the most numerous and robust from a data perspective), with short-term disability and long-term disability data sets.
For many workers, the boss’s emails never seem to stop, and many of them expect to receive a response even if a message is sent after work hours, according to a survey.
Job insecurity, abusive supervision, excessive demands, the encroachment of work on family life and domestic relationship problems top the list of factors that contribute to the development of mental health issues among workers.
Employee role overload negatively impacts the organization's bottom line, and reducing this form of stress can yield the greatest bang for the buck for both employers and employees.
We all know the statistics: one in five Canadians will experience a mental health illness in their lifetime and 30% of the short- and long-term disability claims are attributed to mental illness.
A Ceridian survey finds that although 90% of Canadian organizations believe mental health as an important part of a health and wellness strategy, only 22% of respondents believe the services they have in place are adequate.
Forty-seven percent of Canadians say that work and their workplace is the most stressful part of their lives, according to a survey.
The increased incidence of mental disorders across Canada, combined with the growing costs of prescription drugs used to treat mental health issues and the lack of access to timely treatment, is an ongoing financial concern for businesses and government, says a white paper.