Mental Health

The new regulation could be a game changer for health plans, but employers must be prepared to expand their coverage.

As new generations of talent continue to introduce new ideas for what benefit packages should include, executives are looking to outside experts and internal staff feedback for where to improve.

Beyond salary, the kind of support available at work is often a major driver when it comes to attracting and retaining talent.

According to ComPsych, one in ten of all leaves of absence are due to poor mental health and burnout.

Four workers explain how employer-sponsored meditation apps, work flexibility and stipends boost personal health and job performance.

More than 64% of employees have considered leaving their current role as a result of symptoms of stress.

The rules would make it harder for insurers to skirt a federal law that requires them to offer the same type of coverage for mental-health issues as for physical ones.

"If you send me an email at 9 p.m. tonight, there's a 100% chance I'm not going to respond to it," says Matthew Owenby, Aflac's CHRO.

Between changing public perception and promising preliminary data, it's possible that ketamine, MDMA and psilocybin may be covered for mental health treatments.

Forty-four percent of employees are aware that they don't have enough mental health providers in their benefit offering. But are they doing anything to fix it?