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Eyecare and Tech Holistic Health Tools is Every Agency Top of Mind for Should Have Employees Eyecare is an essential element to whole-body wellness Savvy employers offer premium vision benefit options By Jonathan Ormsby
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s employees are striving to live more holistically healthy lives, they are keeping on top of their health – and that includes their eye health. With issues like blurry vision, eyestrain and headaches negatively impacting workers’ performance and productivity, it’s important for employers to offer health benefits that can positively impact overall health. (According to: Transitions, 2023 Workplace Wellness Survey, Wakefield Research, N=500 U.S. adults, ages 18+, employed full-time or part-time, whose employers offer vision benefits, and 500 U.S. adults, ages 18+, self-employed and enrolled in individual health plans or utilizing private pay.) With 78% of employees reporting that they are more likely to stay with an employer because of their benefits program, employers should be offering holistic benefit programs, including premium vision benefits to their employees to address these health and productivity issues. (Willis Tower Watson, 2018. www.compt.io/employee-perks-statistics), As we know, health is not just physical, but also mental and emotional, and employees are taking care of themselves holistically as nearly all (96%) of those surveyed by Transitions say they are likely to visit a healthcare provider in the next 12 months, most likely including a primary care provider, dentist, or eyecare professional. These findings coincide with a CVS Health® study that found more than three out of four people report the COVID-19 pandemic has led them to pay more attention to their health in
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general. (CVS Health®, 2021 Health Care Insights Study.) We also found that employees (89%) are partaking in other healthy activities quite regularly, including eating healthy foods, exercising, meditating and yoga, and/or visiting a mental health professional. With these findings, we are seeing that employees have taken a greater interest in their own health, and are actively engaging in healthy habits, from taking yoga to visiting their eyecare professional for an eye exam.
Employee focus on holistic health transfers to the workplace Employees are continuing to report issues with their eyes. According to the 2023 Transitions Workplace Wellness Survey, nearly half (49%) of employees cite eyestrain/eye fatigue as negatively impacting their productivity and performance. As the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the amount of time spent in front of computer screens and phones, 45% of employees cite digital eyestrain symptoms like headaches and 38% cite blurry vision as negative impacts on their productivity. Offering breaks can be an effective workplace erk What are easy but effective ways that employers can help alleviate these negative issues that plague employees? Surveyed employees would like their employers to encourage
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