{"id":6963,"date":"2018-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/employee-assistance-programs-dont-just-benefit-employees-heres-why-theyre-good-for-employers-too\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T05:00:00","slug":"employee-assistance-programs-dont-just-benefit-employees-heres-why-theyre-good-for-employers-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/employee-assistance-programs-dont-just-benefit-employees-heres-why-theyre-good-for-employers-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Assistance Programs Don&#8217;t Just Benefit Employees Here&#8217;s Why They&#8217;re Good for Employers Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employee assistance programs come to the rescue of employees at their most unexpected time of need. Employers who offer this valuable benefit to their employees not only increase employee satisfaction and retention, but also shows that you care.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinet.com\/hr-insights\/blog\/2017\/employee-assistance-programs-dont-just-benefit-employees-heres-why-theyre-good-for-employers-too\">Employee Assistance Programs Are Good for Employers Too<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As an emerging or growing organization, you may be asking yourself why you need to offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). You may think an EAP is nothing more than an added business expense. And no small business needs additional expenses! All organizations must ensure they&#8217;re spending their limited financial resources strategically.<\/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>Employee assistance programs come to the rescue of employees at their most unexpected time of need. Employers who offer this valuable benefit to their employees not only increase employee satisfaction and retention, but also shows that you care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.trinet.com\/assets\/img\/content\/hr-insights\/blog-images\/2017\/08\/employee-assistance-programs.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73,126,91,42,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-employee_benefits","9":"tag-employee_health","10":"tag-employeeretention","11":"tag-wellbeing","12":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","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=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}