Benefits of an EAP
In general, Employee Assistance Programs provide value in the following three ways:
1. EAP’s leverage the value of the organization’s investment in their workforce by:
• Improving employee engagement.
• Improving employee and dependents’ skills for successfully responding to life’s challenges.
• Offering employees short-term problem resolution services or referring employees and dependents to
mental health treatment services, when indicated.
• Developing employee and manager competencies in managing workplace stress and improving work team performance.
2. EAPs address the costs of doing business by:
• Reducing workplace absenteeism and unplanned absences.
• Reducing workplace accidents.
• Reducing employee turnover and related replacement costs.
• Facilitating a safe, timely, and effective return-to-work from employees following short-term and extended absences.
• Reducing healthcare costs and improving the value of organizational investments in wellness and health promotion,
self-care management, continuity of care, and work-related efforts.
• Improving efficient use of health care through early identification, care management and recovery efforts.
3. EAPs mitigate business risks by:
• Reducing likelihood of workplace violence or other safety risks.
• Managing the effectiveness of disruptive incidents, such as workplace violence, injury, or other crises, including facilitating a
swift return-to-work after adverse workplace events.
• Supporting disaster and emergency preparedness, and assisting in minimizing job disruption following disasters and emergencies.
• Facilitating successful adjustment to mergers, acquisitions, site closures, or other workforce change events.
• Reducing the likelihood of legal action/liability (e.g., maintaining business practices that promote a violence-free workplace).
• Promoting and supporting companies’ drug and alcohol free workplace policies and programs.
Taken from An Employers Guide to Employee Assistance Programs