Although they're not usually marketed to employees, employee assistance programs and the counseling they provide can help increase employee health and productivity. according to an HRDive report. Highlighting a new study by Chestnut Global Partners (CGP) and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association, the report found that employee health, productivity and satisfaction all improved after EAP counseling.

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The 2017 Workplace Outcome Suite (WOS) Report evaluated work engagement, absenteeism, workplace distress and life satisfaction following EAP counseling, using data that evaluates five core outcomes: absenteeism (looks at the number of hours an employee is absent due to a personal problem); presenteeism (measures loss of productivity from an employee who is present but not working at his or her optimum due to unresolved personal problems); workplace distress (examines the degree of anxiety or stress at work); work engagement (measures how invested in the job, or passionate about it, the employee is); and life satisfaction (measures one's general sense of well-being).