Conference Coverage: 2023 Healthy Outcomes Conference
Nearly 50 employers gathered at the Omni King Edward Hotel in Toronto on Oct. 20 for Benefits Canada’s 2023 Healthy Outcomes Conference, a premier event for employers to exchange ideas and best practices for achieving improved employee health outcomes and enhanced organizational performance.
Through several presentations, delegates heard about chronic disease, health and disabilities trends, menopause in the workplace and financial wellness, as well as a case study from Hydro Ottawa and a plan sponsor panel discussing how to take a proactive approach to absence and disability management.
Here’s what you missed!
Leadership, emotional resilience and mental-health expert
Tall poppy syndrome affecting employee mental health, productivity in the workplace
When tall poppy syndrome is left to manifest in the workplace, it can have an adverse effect on an organization’s culture and lead to issues with employee mental health and productivity.
Canada Life
Canada Life
A closer look at the mental, physical, financial risk factors facing plan members
Many plan members are experiencing risk factors related to poor mental, physical and financial well-being, but often don’t know they can turn to their benefits plans for help.
Teladoc Health
The role of mental-health care, support in DEI strategies
As employers increasingly embrace diversity, equity and inclusion strategies, strong mental-health support can be a key pillar in those efforts.
Medcan
How can plan sponsors support employees with menopause?
Since menopause often hits women at the peak of their careers and can have an impact on their workplace productivity, employers must re-evaluate their benefits plans and workplace policies to better support women through the transition.
Hydro Ottawa
Why Hydro Ottawa’s wellness program isn’t one size fits all
Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. is tailoring its benefits and wellness programs to its unique demographics to more effectively support employee well-being.
Valérie Fernandez
Beneva
Supporting employees’ financial well-being amid rising inflation, interest rates
As Canadians face the dual effects of the rapidly rising cost of living and interest rates, the resulting financial stress has major implications for plan sponsors.
Novo Nordisk
How can employers provide targeted chronic illness support?
As the proportion of Canadians living with one or more chronic disease continues to rise, plan sponsors have the opportunity to provide specific solutions to some of the most common conditions in their employee population.
BDO Canada LLP
Algonquin College
Lululemon
Taking a proactive approach to absence and disability management
Long before the coronavirus pandemic upended the workplace and impacted absence and disability management, employers have been rethinking these programs by taking a proactive approach.
SPONSORS
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