Comprehensive EAP lets you focus on the job

As an employer, you want to concentrate on performance. However, that's not always possible when your employees are struggling with personal issues that carry over to the workplace. Family stresses, conflicts with co-workers, burnout, financial pressure, substance abuse, and emotional problems can all affect the ability of employees to perform their jobs effectively. An employee assistance program from Comprehensive EAP allows your employees to address their problems quickly and confidentially, before they lead to impaired performance, absenteeism, turnover, safety issues, or worse.

Comprehensive EAP is also an invaluable resource for management. We help identify trends and issues in the workplace, offer expert advice on sensitive Human Resources issues and provide training and education on the topics that are most relevant to your business.

An employee assistance program from Comprehensive EAP is a way of showing your employees that you value what they do. It lets them know that you are concerned about all aspects of their well being, not just their on-the-job performance. Employees who are able to get the right help for their problems are healthier and more productive, take less disability and sick time, don't require as much medical care, and are less likely to sue.

If you've ever watched helplessly while a valuable employee's life fell apart before your eyes, or if you've had to pick up the pieces after a traumatic event in the workplace, you already understand the value of an EAP. Perhaps you have seen supervisors, with the best of intentions, counseling employees about personal problems and in the process becoming less able to supervise performance objectively. If so, you know that the EAP is a vital managerial tool.

What you may not know is that Comprehensive EAP can be an important partner in helping you to manage costs as well. We actively help you reduce the costly side effects of employee problems: turnover, reduced productivity, disability, litigation, absenteeism, accidents, and inappropriate health-care utilization.

Consider these facts:

• The average cost in lifetime disability payments for a stress-related illness is $73,270.
• Thirty-five percent of employees who had been at a job for less than two years report that they quit because of stress. The result? Increased recruiting and training costs for the employer, as well as poorer product quality.
• Stress-related Workers Compensation claims are rapidly increasing. EAP's offer a way to defuse employer-directed anger and distress.
• More than 80 percent of people with depression can be effectively treated, but only one-third of them get appropriate help. Depressed employees are more likely to be absent or perform less efficiently, use their health-care benefits inappropriately and pose increased disability and safety risks.
• Employees who are able to address their problems effectively are less likely to sue.