Sept. 6, 2012

Wall Street Journal

Uptick in College Students Seeking Counseling, Financial Support  For college students in general this fall, financial hassles are making the new school year transition much harder. Calls from college-age kids wanting advice and counseli...
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Sept. 1, 2012

Chicago Tribune

The Emerging Health and Wealth Paradigm Some workplaces are blending traditional financial education with wellness programs in an effort to boost employee health and wealth in a single shot.“Since the financial crisis, we have more people callin...
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Sept. 1, 2012

Employee Benefit News

Taking Aim on Workplace Bullying  Employers invest substantially in employee benefits to attract, retain and motivate a top-quality workforce. But the presence of even one bully in the workplace can undermine that investment – not to...
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Aug. 31, 2012

MSN Money

Stressed Out? You're Not Alone More than two-third of employees claim high stress levels, and 29 percent are too stressed to be effective at work on five or more days per year, reports the annual StressPulse survey by ComPsych Corporation, the world’s l...
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Aug. 31, 2012

Employment Law Letter

Workplace Trends What’s distracting your employees? “Personal relationship issues” and “coworkers who want to chat” top the list of employee distractions, according to a poll released in June. The Tell It Now poll from employee ass...
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Aug. 29, 2012

Wall Street Journal

Managing Mental Health at Work  It’s not uncommon that some of a company’s brightest people, statistically, would have a mental-health issue, and it’s becoming problematic as an increasing number of adults seek treatment for psychia...
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Aug. 13, 2012

NBC/Life Goes Strong

Biggest Work Distraction: Not the Cell Phone What’s the biggest work distraction? The answer: basically, your family. Asked about the biggest distraction at work, 22 percent said of respondents said “personal relationship issues,” 15 perc...
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Aug. 3, 2012

Chicago Tribune

World Opens Up for Older Workers Abroad Despite stubbornly long unemployment stints at home, older workers are seeing an uptick in their share of foreign assignments, new research shows, as they use the postings to segue into second careers, extend...
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Aug. 2, 2012

Forbes

Stress at Work is Bunk for Business A recent Wall Street Journal article was titled “Anxiety Can Bring out the Best; Researchers Prescribe Just Enough Stress to Ace Life’s Tests.” There are subtle differences between stress and anxiety, but there are ...
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Aug. 1, 2012

BenefitsPro

Top Five Reasons to Use an EAP Life can get pretty stressful, and the workplace isn’t necessarily a safe haven. Half of workplaces said they’ve experienced a crisis in the past year, according to a report by ComPsych Corporation, the world’s larges...
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July 22, 2012

USA Today

Community Faces 'a Marathon' of Trauma Recovery As authorities in Aurora notified families Saturday that their loved ones were killed in the midnight movie theater shooting, that pain will radiate to friends, neighbors, classmates, co-workers and on to s...
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July 19, 2012

HR Executive

‘Ambient’ Bullying in the Workplace It’s one thing to be bullied by a coworker or a boss, but simply witnessing the behavior in the workplace can be enough to make a worker call it quits, according to a recent study of “ambient” bullying.Ke...
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June 27, 2012

Workforce

Social Life, Not Social Media, Is Work’s Biggest Distraction A new ComPsych poll runs contrary to other surveys that indicate that tools such as Facebook distract employees during work hours. Employees are more distracted at work by personal relationshi...
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June 18, 2012

Chicago Tribune

Growth & Change A year ago, the Tribune launched its Executive Profile feature, aiming to capture the personalities of the city’s most dynamic leaders as well as the challenges they faced. In this special report, they’ve provided an update ...
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June 15, 2012

Benefits Canada

Personal Relationships Top Employee Distraction If your employees are distracted in the workplace, there’s a good chance it’s due to relationship problems at home, according to a study by ComPsych Corporation. The study asked employees what the...
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June 14, 2012

Fox News

Your Significant Other Could Hurt Your Career If you find yourself unable to focus at work, it could be your significant other who is to blame. A new survey from Com-Psych finds one in 5 workers cite personal relationship problems as their biggest distrac...
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June 11, 2012

Crain’s Chicago Business

Beer Pressure: How Nondrinkers Find Out They Are Often Abstaining From Business as Well While the era of “Mad Men’s” three-martini lunch is long over, liquor still plays a role in many work events, from coworker happy hours to clien...
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June 1, 2012

Employee Benefit News

Trial and Error  ComPsych offers a heath navigation service called HealthChampion with two components:  a registered nurse to help with medical questions and concerns and a benefits specialist to go over the details of an employee’s...
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