Ceridian Survey Finds Employers Want Better, More Ways to Improve their Employees’ Health and Productivity
National Survey of 10,000 Brokers and Consultants Finds Companies Want To Purchase Products to Solve Their Organizations’ Health and Productivity Issues
At the 58th annual SHRM Conference and Exposition, Washington, D.C. (June 26, 2006) – Eighty five percent of U.S. employers are interested in purchasing services to increase employee productivity, reduce absences and enhance the health of their employees according to a new survey of 10,000 brokers and consultants conducted by Ceridian (www.ceridian.com), a leader in managed human resource outsourcing solutions.
With rising health cares costs and productivity losses on the rise in the U.S., Ceridian conducted the survey to determine companies’ interest level in purchasing services to help curb these costly trends. Eighty-five percent of the respondents said that their clients would be somewhat or very likely to purchase health and productivity services. A large number of the brokers surveyed place a high interest and value in services such as full and self-service leave administration; an online health and productivity assessment; life enhancement wellness coaching; return-to-work management; disability and disease management.
Brokers were also asked how much per employee, per pay period they feel their clients would pay for health and productivity services. Results showed that more than 50 percent of their clients would pay at least $30 and more than 40 percent said their clients would pay as much as $42 per employee, per pay period for a health and productivity solution.
“This research validates what we have been seeing in the marketplace for some time now-companies are increasingly realizing that they cannot by themselves solve the sometimes insurmountable challenges that can come with presenteeism, threats to worker productivity and rising health care costs,” said Zachary Meyer, senior vice president of LifeWorks Commercial, Ceridian’s EAP and work-life division. “We feel that companies simply cannot afford not to create ways to address these issues, even if it means at first only implementing a very basic program to address employee health, wellness and productivity.”
The results of this survey helped contribute to the development of Ceridian’s recently launched Ceridian Health and Productivity Management offering, which features: administration and tracking of FMLA, military, jury duty, and casual absences; a comprehensive Web enabled health and productivity risk assessment that identifies health and work-life balance issues; access to health educators for personal or family health coordination; referrals and coaching for a variety of issues; proactive outreach to employees identified as at-risk for health and productivity issues; coordination and management of health resource fairs; access to more than 170 seminars; screenings that provide identification of potential health risks; immediate, toll-free access to RNs for general health information, medical care needs assessment, disease management; and directing employees to the most appropriate medical care.
One of the differentiators of Ceridian’s offering from competing products on the market is that Ceridian helps companies both identify and evaluate the root causes of why their employees are missing work or what major health concerns exist inside their organization. Ceridian then builds customized, health and productivity solutions to address these issues. Ceridian also provides integrated assessments of health, psychosocial, work-life balance and environmental stressors. And its Life Enhancement outreach coaching delivers integrated support for health, behavioral/psychosocial and work-life management issues.
Ceridian Health and Productivity Management can be scaled to companies of all sizes. It is available to Ceridian’s base of U.S. customers as well as other companies not currently using Ceridian’s human resource outsourcing solutions. Pricing is based on employee population size and scope of services purchased.
Source: Ceridian
