Editor’s Note

Leading a holistic lifestyle is not all about eating organic food and doing yoga. It is an all-round approach about looking at the larger picture of life, from your food to your relationships, to your lifestyles and to your career. We all know that our lives have been invaded with all possible toxic ingredients and chemical supplements, however, are you aware that most of them have not been tested for human and environmental toxicity!

Stress-Relief Tips For Accountants: 7 tips to cope up during tax time

Time management at tax time may seem like an impossible task for accountants. However, there are a few tips that can help you have an easier time of coping and feeling human – instead of feeling exhausted, having bad digestion, poor sleep, bags under your eyes and feeling like you’re on a never-ending treadmill while juggling mounds of papers.

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Work Habits Messing With Your Brain?: How to culture effective work habits?

If you are unsure whether you work in a brain-savvy way you can take our Brain-savvy Leading self-assessment. You will get a report of how you work alongside details about connecting with others, your mindset for developing yourself and your leadership of change. We ran two breakfast club meetings on the topic of what neuroscience is telling us about effective work habits. We took the opportunity to ask people a bit about how they currently work.

BridgingThe Generation Gap: Worksite wellness program for all

Millennials are slowly but surely infiltrating your workforce with degrees and experience under their belts. Boomers might also be a bit slow to retire, so they’re still doing great work for you too. If the two end caps are now working for your company that means Generation X from the middle ground is probably prominent as well.

Understanding HRAs: The essential facts

As the popularity of consumer-driven and account-based health plans rise, employers must evaluate how to use HRAs as part of their health benefits strategy. An HRA is a simple tool employers can use to reimburse employees tax-free for medical expenses. However, due to recent market reforms, many business executives are confused as to how HRAs may be used in today’s market.

Health Benefits Plan: Is your traditional benefits plan meeting your employees’ real needs?

What is the purpose of a health benefits plan? 2014’s Sanofi Healthcare Survey – Canada’s largest national survey of plan sponsors and plan members – asked plan sponsors why they offer their health benefits plan. Not surprisingly, a lot of sponsors – 67 per cent – chose this statement: “Coverage so employees are not placed under undue financial burden” and 57 per cent indicated it was a strategy to “attract and retain employees.” Those are legitimate positions. Interestingly, only 31 per cent appeared to make the link between health and the bottom line: “Healthier employees are more productive employees; our health benefit plan is one of our corporate strategies to grow or improve our core business.”

Your Environment...Your Choice: How environment impacts outcomes

Your environment is your space…it is your body, and the settings in which you live, work, and play.Your body probably started out on an even playing field 25 or more years ago.And, your home and work settings have influenced your body’s ability to adapt – to thrive and survive today and forever. Think about where you live, work and play, and think about the sources of stress that present on an almost daily basis and influence your ability to be well and to stay well

Holistic Approach To Well-Being: How to use wellness program to recruit and retain top talent

Health care is one of the top internal expenses for many companies, but recruiting and retaining top talent is also a very costly endeavor.So, your wellness program must apply to everyone in your company, not just cater to those at the top. The question is how do you cater to the warehouse employee, the C-suite and everyone in between?

Accident Insurance: Don’t let an unexpected injury hurt your employees’ finances

Not only can accidents cause physical injury, but they can also damage an employee’s finances if they’re not prepared for the out-of-pocket medical expenses associated with them. Medical costs can snowball, leaving workers feeling overwhelmed. However, with a supplemental accident policy, they may be covered through various stages of care. The protection accident insurance helps provide allows policyholders and their families to focus on recovery – instead of finances.