Connect For Success® is an innovative workplace benefit that saves businesses and organizations time and money by helping employees resolve personal issues that could be negatively impacting their work performance and results. Having Connect For Success® available as a resource for your company improves the work environment by promoting the health and well-being of everyone involved and encouraging productivity.
Employers, who partner with Connect for Success®, save money through better productivity, fewer absences, lower staff turnover, and lower health costs.
55-75% of all illnesses are thought to be stress related.
Two out of three employee problems originate from personal issues.
15% of American workers abuse drugs and alcohol.
Alcoholics use medical care three times more than non-alcoholics.
Personal illness accounted for 45% of absenteeism in 1995.
Data from 1995 shows that unscheduled absenteeism cost employers as much as $668 per employee per year.
Dealing with family issues caused 27% of unscheduled absenteeism in 1995.
Psychological problems cause 61% of yearly absenteeism (as well as 65-85% of employee terminations and 80-90% of industrial accidents).
In a survey in “Managed Health Network”, in June of 1995, Roper Starch Worldwide Inc. polled over 500 US companies' Human Resource professionals and 500 employees.
92% of Americans agreed that personal problems spill over into work decreasing productivity.
60% of American workers stated they had experienced stress-related problems.
79-86% of Americans felt that support programs can help employees with personal problems.
66% believed employee personal problems harmfully affected attendance at work.
63% thought that productivity was negatively affected by employee personal problems.
61% felt that an employee's emotional well-being was strongly affected by personal problems.
There has been a significant increase in dual career families. Almost 60% of workingmen have wives working outside the home.
Parents miss work or are late to work an average of once every three weeks because of childcare responsibilities.
In today's “sandwich generation” employees face both child and eldercare responsibilities as many employees with eldercare responsibility also have children under 18.
The annual cost of caring for elders includes both a financial component and an emotional/stress component.
Eldercare cost US business more than $29 billion in lost productivity in 1997 and is expected to grow to $166 billion by 2050.
Absences due to eldercare are estimated to cost employers' about $3,000.00 per employee per year.
A growing number of American workers are experiencing financial distress.
Concern over money problems creates anxiety and stress, which may lead to the additional problems of alcohol, drug and spouse abuse.
Financial concerns account for 12% of the reasons for lost work time.
Consumer debt reached $1.47 trillion in July of 2000.
Workers with alcohol problems generate eight times more medical costs than those without.
A national average of 15% of any given workforce has problems with substance abuse.
Alcohol alone cost the U.S. $65.5 billion annually in lost revenue.
On the job accidents attributed to alcohol and drug use cost $91 billion annually.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the cost of alcohol and drug abuse to American businesses is $100 billion a year in both tangible and intangible costs.
They are 5 times more likely to file a workers' compensation claim.
They have unexcused absences from work twice as often.
They are late to work three times as often.
They ask to leave early twice as often.
They are more likely to steal from the company or be involved in workplace accidents.
Stress costs American employers approximately $200 billion a year in absenteeism, lower productivity, rising health and workers compensation costs, and other expenses.
The International Labor Organization characterizes work stress as the disease of the modern workplace.
Between 75-90% of visits to primary care physicians are related to stress.
Two out of ten people suffering clinical depression begin with stress.
Depression is now the second most disabling illness after heart disease. It affects one in 10 working-age adults.
According to the Surgeon General David Satcher, mental illness will affect one out of every 5 Americans in their lifetime.
The International Labor Organization reports the estimated economic cost of depression to be $44 billion in the US.
The ILO predicts that within 20 years mental, neurological, and behavioral disorders will outrank traffic accidents, AIDS and violence as a primary cause of work years lost from early death or disability.