Employers should record employee financial stress via EAPs

Adam Saville
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Financial wellbeing firm Neyber suggests better use of employee assistance programmes (EAPs) would benefit both workers and companies

A simple but effective change to personnel processing would go a long way to improving quality of life for employees and therefore helping a business, financial wellbeing company Neyber has rallied. The firm has suggested that employers ask their EAP providers to track employee financial notifications of stress, a change that can easily be made within EAP systems themselves. "Currently, we understand EAPs track when an employee is depressed or anxious, but the employers can't tell if it's for financial reasons," said Monica Kalia, co-founder of Neyber. "Yet making this adjustment give...

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