COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic – the news is full of these terms. What is this doing to us? How do we cope with stresses and strains? The anxieties, the conflicts, the new challenges, social distancing? EAP can give your company's employees just the individual support they need, fast.
INSITE remains on call for its clients and their employees with Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP). We are still providing advice and consultations via phone and chat on all aspects of the new reality we are now faced with.
And for everything else, too, both personal and professional.
New daily routines
Lots of employees are currently working from a mobile office or are self-isolating at home. For most people, this is an exceptional situation that has been made necessary by the current legal guidelines.
But despite this change in circumstances, ordinary daily routines like work and/or childcare still need taking care of. At the same time, family members need to be taken care of, shopping needs to be done despite the caution that is being urged, conflicts start to simmer and people are suffering from social isolation. For many people, the current stay-at-home order poses a huge challenge and only adds to their stress.
It can feel as if the world has gone mad and it takes a lot of energy to keep calm and not let our worries and our anxieties get out of hand.
How can you as a company support your employees?
As an employer, you can support your employees right now by providing them with a comprehensive range of assistance services. The EAP contains the following core services:
- Mental health counselling
e.g. dealing with anxieties and changes in situations, establishing new routines, dealing with conflicts at home and at work - Medical consultations
e.g. recommendations on precautionary steps, discussing pre-existing conditions, how to interact with at-risk groups - Preliminary financial consultation
e.g. applying for government support, discussing an employee's individual financial situation - Legal advice
e.g. rights and obligations around contract issues
EAP Consulting
Our assistance service is available to our clients' employees free of charge and completely anonymously, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Our support services are aimed at:
- All employees of your company, and their family members
- Your managers
- All specialist functions at your company, such as occupational physicians, works councils, trainers, disability reps, HR managers etc.
An EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) is an impartial, full-service support programme for businesses and their employees. Its aim is to promote the health, harmony and performance of employees and to guarantee the stability of the people in the organisation, even in times of crisis. The EAP is available to everyone in the company at any time. It helps everyone, taking the strain off managers and saving a huge amount of time, money and nerves.
