{"id":6627,"date":"2019-02-27T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:18:56","slug":"what-is-financial-wellness-and-why-its-important-to-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/what-is-financial-wellness-and-why-its-important-to-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Financial Wellness and Why It&#8217;s Important to Your Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the offerings within a wellness program (or benefits program in general) is providing something that contributes to an employee&#8217;s financial wellness. Since we don&#8217;t seem to learn these skills in school, there are many knowledge gaps about retirement savings, budgeting and finances that exist for employees. This education is often lacking and employers can fill in these knowledge gaps very successfully with little effort.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getpeanutbutter.com\/blog\/what-is-financial-wellness-why-its-important\">What is Financial Wellness and Why It&#8217;s Important to Your Employees | Peanut Butter Student Loan Assistance<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The following is a guess post from Carolyn Kick, Marketing Manager at Launchways. In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s changing workforce, employers are reconsidering how they approach employee benefits. In the efforts to attract and retain top talent, companies are aiming to create more appealing benefits programs. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re considering new, more comprehensive approaches to benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the offerings within a wellness program (or benefits program in general) is providing something that contributes to an employee&#8217;s financial wellness. Since we don&#8217;t seem to learn these skills in school, there are many knowledge gaps about retirement savings, budgeting and finances that exist for employees. This education is often lacking and employers can fill in these knowledge gaps very successfully with little effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/1577846\/rawpixel-579263-unsplash.jpg?zoom=1.25&w=484&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"What is Financial Wellness and Why It&#8217;s Important to Your Employees","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,91,166,163,164,165,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-6627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-employee_benefits","9":"tag-employeeretention","10":"tag-financial_security","11":"tag-financialhealth","12":"tag-financialwellness","13":"tag-personal_wealth","14":"tag-wellnesstrends"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8006,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/8006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}