Employee Assistance Programs
No matter what kind of organization or industry one work in, employees will occasionally have personal problems. Whether the problem relates to job stress or to legal, marital, financial, or health issues, one commonality exists: if an employee experiences a personal problem, sooner or later it will manifest itself at the workplace in terms of lowered productivity, increased absenteeism, or turnover (behavioral symptoms of stress). To help employees deal with these personal problems, more companies are implementing employee assistance programs (EPAs).