Health Benefit Plan Notices
Checklist for 2015
Vacation Commitment Day
It’s time for your company to commit to vacations!
Detox Your Life
7 ways to eliminate toxins
Shift Work Health Risks
What can businesses do to help shift workers?
Health Benefit Plan Notices
Checklist for 2015
Vacation Commitment Day
It’s time for your company to commit to vacations!
Detox Your Life
7 ways to eliminate toxins
Shift Work Health Risks
What can businesses do to help shift workers?
March 29th was celebrated as National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. In honor of all small business owners, this article provides an overview of healthcare options and how they can be beneficial to small businesses.
When your company offers a group health plan, there are several different notices you are required to provide to participants about their health benefits. Keeping track of the required notice, requirements can be tedious and time-consuming, especially with the new Obamacare requirements, and especially for small and medium sized employers. However, failure to comply can lead to fees and penalties.
Spring is here…finally! One of the snowiest winters in history on the Eastern seaboard is coming to end. It’s time to start thinking about summer and vacation. My organization, Take Back Your Time, declared March 31 as “Vacation Commitment Day” to encourage every employer and employee throughout America to make sure they get the full benefits that vacations offer.We’re delighted that Diamond Resorts International®, a respected hospitality and vacation properties company, feels just as strongly about this as we do, and they’ve shown that by supporting our initiative in a big way because they have an important stake in vacation time.
Toxins are everywhere and wreak havoc on us physically, mentally and emotionally. Here are 7 ways to detox from the areas where toxins are likely to be impacting you the most.
Staff working shifts outside the hours of 0700-1900 hours are at higher risk of developing chronic health conditions and serious illness, and could even be risking a decline in cognitive function, a recent survey revealed. In this article, Gary Cattermole, director at award winning employee engagement consultancy and staff survey specialist, The Survey Initiative, explains why he believes employers have a duty of care to protect their staff against the risks and gives advice on how it can be achieved.
Ahhh… that is the question. Did you know you have the ability to choose your response to any and every situation that unfolds before you in life? When you remember this truth, it is very empowering and will be of great worth as you journey through life. Your choice of response will also make all the difference in the outcome. When you choose any strong emotional response, know that you cannot see things for what they really are because you are blinded by the intensity of the emotion.
Remember when corporate wellness meant weight-loss coaching and tobacco-cessation programs? It was often represented by a poster of the food pyramid hung above the office microwave.
It’s a given that being cited as a company that cares for its staff is fantastic for recruitment and retention.However, it also has a knock-on effect on a business’s culture, by producing employees who care in return.
The amount of stress that you cause your kids by not being “present” does a lot of damage to them. Let me make an important point. It’s not about totally shutting out work and turning off your email/phone when you step out of work, but more about how you manage your time and energy. If you’re bringing the stress of work home with you to the dinner table, then you obviously can’t balance the two, and I’d recommend really working on it.
After a full hour jog, you look on the treadmill, you check the number of calories burned, and the magic number is 637 calories. Not bad for an hour on the treadmill. However, how accurate is this? Let’s examine this.