New Year's Resolutions are Good for Organizations Too Dr. Joe Aller, DHA, MBA, CPA Director, Analytics and Research, IBI 2021 was a challenging year for most of us, not just personally, but also professionally in the workplace. This new year marks a time for us to reflect on the past and adjust our course [...]
Employees know how to adapt when a co-worker is sidelined by illness: they pick up the slack where they can, help others fill in the gaps, or put things off until later. But do employees recognize the bigger impact of absences—day-in and day-out, across the entire organization—on their company's operations and how this makes it [...]
We review how the causes of death and longevity statistics have changed over the centuries, and even over the last few decades. We focus on what people can do in order to prolong their lives, including exercise, diet, stress management, and a focus on accident prevention. We also examine how the mission of Life Insurance [...]
This paper explains that people with disabilities need meaning and purpose in their lives, which for most of us, comes from purposeful work. The paper argues that for all of us, including employers, we need to focus on what employees can do, and provide opportunities for them to return to purposeful work [...]
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, the right time to learn how mental illness and job stress may affect your employees, their performance and your business. One in four Americans is affected by mental illness each year, and the World Health Organization says depression will be the costliest disease burden by 2020. When it comes [...]
Organizations continue to deploy money and effort into initiatives to positively impact the health and well-being of their workforce. There are many competing priorities and all appear to be worthwhile. One of the hottest issues that is attracting this attention is resilience. Yet many people still do not know what resilience is, what it relates [...]
Employers and their benefit advisers face a complex array of carriers and third-party administrators when attempting to choose absence and disability providers. In the past, these choices often hinged upon price alone. Recent research and surveys have demonstrated that employee absence and disability cost more than previously thought. The provider choice can ultimately have major [...]
In this white paper, Lincoln Financial Group introduces the “Happy Worker Prescription.” Lincoln Financial Group reviews the research literature connecting employee happiness and productivity, explore the components of happiness, and describe why the findings are critical to employer success in the modern economic environment. Lincoln Financial Group concludes with a 10-step “prescription” for maximizing employee [...]
Employers will experience the costs of health-related lost productivity (HRLP), regardless of whether they offer employer-sponsored health insurance to employees. However, they can take steps to create a workplace that supports employee productivity, helps keeps employees at work and ultimately reduces costs. Taking advantage of the window of opportunity presented by short-term disability is a [...]
As part of a two-year research partnership, The Hartford and the University of Kansas released a white paper in 2015 that outlined the critical nature of a strong partnership between a supportive employer and a motivated employee with a disability. With a focus on The Hartford's Ability Philosophy - a long held belief in what [...]
