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With employee recruitment and retention still at the top of the agenda for many organizations, total rewards programs can help HR and benefits professionals deliver a better worker experience.

Keeping employees both happy and healthy is a difficult task. To help workers, many organizations have shifted their focus from preventative care to creating a culture of well-being that focuses more on ensuring employees have what they need to manage stress, create time for self-care and develop tools for resilience. In this second episode of a new podcast series sponsored by LabCorp, What Are Your Answers for a Healthy and Resilient Workforce?, Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Director, Employee Health and Wellbeing at Johns Hopkins Medicine, talks to Shavise Hargro, Wellness Program Manager at LabCorp, about how the 'Healthy' at Hopkins employee health and wellness program works to address workers' well-being in a more holistic way. To hear the second episode, press play. You can also listen to Labcorp's first episode in the series by clicking the link below: Fresh Approaches to Employee Health and Wellbeing

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast we’ll hear highlights from the presentation How to Ensure a Critical Work Life Balance for Parents. In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Rethink Care and hosted on BenefitsPRO, we’ll hear highlights from the Aug. 25 webcast, How to Ensure a Critical Work Life Balance for Parents. For many organizations, work-life balance is a common problem, especially for parents. According to a FlexJobs survey, 53% of working mothers and 51% of working fathers say managing a career makes it hard to be a good parent. Achieving a healthy work-life balance, however, is often not only up to the individual, but the company or organization.  However, a healthy work-life balance is not only good for your employees, but also for business.  During this episode, Angela Nelson, Vice President and Executive Director of Clinical Services of RethinkCare, discusses how the post-pandemic world is changing how we think about work-life balance, and what challenges working moms and dads face as they try to balance their families and careers. Some of the topics covered include: What work-life balance is and where the concept originated from; Why work-life balance is critical for both individuals and organizations; How to progress towards a better work-life balance. The webcast can be found in its entirety on demand at https://www.benefitspro.com/2022/06/28/how-to-ensure-a-critical-work-life-balance-for-parents/

Since the pandemic, the twin concerns of employee health and wellbeing have been on the minds of human resources executives and benefits directors as they look to balance the needs of remote work and the flexibility that the workforce demands. In the first episode of a new podcast series sponsored by LabCorp, What Are Your Answers for a Healthy and Resilient Workforce, Emily Roberts, Leader of Client Success at Labcorp Employer Services and Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Director, Employee Health and Wellbeing at Johns Hopkins Medicine, talk about changes in employee health and wellbeing over the last two years. They also detail how Johns Hopkins has taken innovative approaches to address these issues with workers and their families. Roberts and Safeer also discuss the relationship between LabCorp and Johns Hopkins. To hear the first episode, press play.

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast we’ll hear highlights from the presentation The Great Reimagining: Your Opportunity to Reframe the Value of Benefit Spending and Savings Accounts. In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by UMB Healthcare and hosted on Benefits Pro, we’ll hear highlights from the May 11 presentation, The Great Reimagining: Your Opportunity to Reframe the Value of Benefit Spending and Savings Accounts. As the US returns to pre-pandemic behavior, employers are grappling with an ever-changing business landscape. Unemployment is at record lows, financial markets are in flux, and employees are rethinking how, where—and even if—they want to work going forward. As a result, attracting and retaining top talent is a major challenge for organizations of all sizes. Most employee benefits are table stakes in the competition for the best and brightest candidates. The great reimagining is a moment to not only demonstrate that you’re hearing what clients want, but also to make sure that their benefits fit into this newly reimagined work world.  During this episode, Phil Mason, Executive Vice President, COO Institutional Banking, Director of Healthcare Services at UMB Healthcare, and Matt Clarkin, principal and co-found of Access Point HSA, discuss recent employment trends and how benefit spending and savings accounts can help various organizations. Some of the topics covered include: Key features and advantages of benefit spending and savings accounts; Myths versus facts around what these accounts can and should do; What employees need from their benefit accounts and key features and services that employers expect from account vendors.  The webcast can be found in its entirety on demand at: https://www.benefitspro.com/2022/03/24/the-great-reimagining-your-opportunity-to-reframe-the-value-of-benefit-spending-savings-accounts/

Health care should not be one size fits all.   That’s according to Dr. Erich Huang, Onduo’s Chief Science and Innovation Officer. Huang has a long career in academic medicine at Duke University, and now spearheads clinical evidence generating programs and research at the virtual care company, which is based in Newton, Mass.   Huang, who is a Ph.D. and a medical doctor, notes that in today’s healthcare environment, there is little room for personalization. But he and his team at Onduo are working hard to change that.   “We need to be part of people’s lives to get signals that are health relevant and then help navigate them to better health,” he says.   He discusses how health care providers need to look at an individual’s activities, or a series of tests, to find better ways to personalize their care. Taking these signals from the course of an individual’s life and using them to tailor care over time is the future, states Huang.   Press play to hear more of Dr. Huang’s expertise about how employers are improving and further personalizing benefits and what the future holds.