4 workplace mental wellness essentials
A benefit strategy that supports mental wellness needs these four components. How many do your current offerings cover?
Employees need mental well-being support, for themselves and their families. Traditional approaches to care are falling short, and workers want their employers to offer more. But what should "more" look like for your organization?
Here's how to decide: First, evaluate your current workplace mental wellness efforts. Then, make a plan that opens more doors to personalized, proactive care.
A benefit strategy that supports mental wellness needs these four components. How many do your current offerings cover?
Employees deserve readily accessible help when they simply need to refocus, or cope with anxiety, stress, and/or burnout. And that help should be available to them 24/7, whether they're at their desk, or on the go.
Access to mental health professionals that can address each employee’s personal needs in a timely manner is paramount.
The employer should receive regular, secure reporting on utilization, trends, and progress, demonstrating impact on overall workforce mental wellness and return on investment, while protecting the privacy of employees.
Integrate seamlessly with other benefit offerings, so mental health support becomes innate when other types of health claims are submitted.
A dedicated mental wellness solution like Guardian + Spring Health can help connect to other aspects of employee well-being — and in turn, other benefits. By making mental wellness innate to the employee experience, you can create better outcomes for employees across other benefits.
Mental health conditions can signal oral health issues, and vice versa. Offering a mental wellness solution as well as dental insurance supports this connection, by helping employees and their families address potential problems for better outcomes in work and life.
Disabilities can be visible, or unseen; temporary, or permanent; new, or present since birth. Each type presents challenges that can weigh heavily on emotional health. A dedicated mental wellness solution can provide the personalized care employees need to cope and thrive.
Every family could use mental health support as they navigate life together. Guardian + Spring Health is uniquely positioned to help provide proactive mental wellness support not only to employees, but also adult dependents ages 18+, teens, and children.
Tell me moreI want to evaluate the mental wellness support I provide employees and learn about options to refine my offerings.
I want to understand how mental wellness benefits impact human and business outcomes, including return on investment, health outcomes, claims, and more.
1 Spring Health proprietary research based on results from use of the Spring Health platform, May 2021.
Mental wellness benefits discussed herein are provided by Spring Care, Inc., d/b/a Spring Health (“Spring Health”), 60 Madison Avenue, Floor 2, New York, NY 10010. Spring Health is not an insurance benefit. Insured products are offered by The Guardian Life Insurance Company, New York, N.Y. (“Guardian”) which has a financial interest in Spring Health.
Make a plan
You need a benefit that focuses solely on employee mental wellness by offering tools, resources, and professional services that are clinically proven to drive improved outcomes for employees, their families, and your business.1
EAPs offer tools and resources that help employees balance their responsibilities with family, caregiving, health and wellness, emotional well-being, and daily living – but may best address more short-term, critical mental health issues. A proactive, dedicated mental health solution pairs well with the broader benefits of an EAP because it helps provide ongoing support as mental wellness needs evolve.