Employee Assistance Programme Benefits

• Increases productivity through a more focused workforce
  The EAP offers employees advice and information on any aspect of their life, both in and outside work, and can help employers to reduce the costs associated with employees struggling to maintain a work/life balance.
• Could reduce absenteeism and staff turnover
  Over ten million working days are lost to work-related stress every year*. By providing an outlet for stress and expert advice, absence days may be reduced.
• Helps to demonstrate taking action to address your duty of care
  EAP is recognised as a constructive way of helping employers fulfil their legal obligations, by providing means to proactively help combat stress and promote employee health and welfare management in the workplace.
• Become an employer of choice
  Regarded by staff as a valuable benefit, EAP helps to promote a caring work environment where employees feel valued.

* Health & Safety Executive statistics – www.hse.gov.uk - 8.10.07