THE "BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR" OFFER EAPs
- Stock performance of the 61 companies on the Working Mother list of "best companies to work for" was compared with the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Index. The "best companies to work for" had supportive benefits, policies and practices to help employees deal with personal and family challenges, and consistently outperformed the S&P 500 between 1996 & 1998.
- EAP's help create the "culture of caring" that the January 22, 2001 issue of Fortune magazine identified as a common denominator in America's top 100 companies to work for.
- Offering benefits that enable individuals to cope more effectively with major life event stressors can significantly strengthen the psychological contract or bond between employees and employer, leading to improvements in operational effectiveness and profitability.
- In a survey of 1,500 major U.S. employers, EAPs were cited as one of the top programs and policies that help employees balance work and family responsibilities.
- Without an EAP employees who feel they've been harassed may not know where to turn and are more likely to view the company as adversarial.
