Many employers offer an employee assistance programme (EAP) to staff. This is an employer-paid scheme that allows employees to contact an independent adviser on a confidential basis to discuss any issue that is troubling them, causing stress or interfering with effective job performance or attendance.
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More than two-thirds (68%) of UK workers do not know if their employer offers acccess to an employee assistance programme...
Offering tax incentives for employee health support could give the economy a boost of £2.65 billion in four years, according to the CBI.
One in five employees could be coping with domestic abuse, with the Euros championship potentially putting them at extra risk.
More than eight out of 10 employers that offer an employee assistance programme report take-up as low as 3%-5%, according to a poll.
Employee assistance programmes are under huge strain. What is their role in employee wellbeing, and what should employers do?
Employee assistance programmes, or EAPs, should be supporting workers, but the model does not always allow them to do so effectively.
Sickness absence rates hit 7.8 days per year on average in 2023, the highest level reported in a decade and two days more than pre-pandemic.
