About EAPs

What is an EAP?

An Employee Assistance Program provides confidential assistance to employees and their family members to help them prevent or solve personal or work-related problems. EAP services provide employees access to free, confidential, professional counseling and assistance. The EAP also serves as a resource to managers and supervisors to assist in the identification and intervention of work performance issues.

Why does my company need an EAP?

Anything that influences an employee's well-being will have an impact on that individual's work performance. To understand how true this is, just remember the last time you had a headache and how difficult it was for you to function well. It's the same when an employee comes to work with a personal or family concern, financial or legal difficulties, not to mention more serious issues like domestic violence, alcohol or substance abuse problems, clinical depression or other mental illness.

When your employees suffer personally, your business suffers financially. Providing EAP services is an investment in your workforce that pays by helping to keep your employees happy, healthy and productive.

EAPs save costs by reducing: health care utilization, absenteeism and tardiness, accidents on and off the job, unemployment and workers' compensation claims, the necessity for disciplinary action, and employee turnover

EAP's also save costs by increasing: productivity, performance and workplace morale

On average, an EAP provides a $9.00 return for every $1.00 invested. (SHRM Learning System, 2004)

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