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![]() ![]() ![]() Laurie Mitchell, Colonial Life's assistant VP for global wellbeing and health, said employers can help stress-plagued workers by: offering them access to an employee assistance program (EAP) providing telehealth services for emotional health, mobile health apps for stress reduction and mindfulness, fitness centers and financial well-being programs and promoting work-life balance by offering flexible work options, paid time off, paid parental leave and other paid leave programs.Workers also described how they feel when stressed: 41% felt less productive, 33% felt less engaged and 15% said stress made them look for a new job. Jobs and health are workers' biggest worries, the study showed, with three of their top six concerns relating to health.Bureau of Labor Statistics, Colonial Life said that with 128.5 million full-time employees earning on average $21 per hour, employers are losing billions on workers because of workers who are disengaged or unproductive because of stress. Another 50% said they lose between one and five hours of work time each week due to stress, the survey said. Citing the U.S. Seventy percent of workers stress about their health, jobs and finances, and more than 20% spend at least five hours each week thinking about these stressors during their working hours, according to a Colonial Life study study of 1,505 full-time U.S. ![]()
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