New Virgin Pulse EAP offering goes global

New Virgin Pulse EAP offering goes global

Engaging employees with their Employee Assistance Programme should be a focus for all businesses which have invested in this service.

In a shrinking global world where companies very often have a presence in more than one country, often several, the challenge for those businesses is how to ensure a standardised EAP offering for all their workforce.

Looking to address this issue of a global workforce, it’s interested to read about the latest offer from Virgin Pulse, which has now announced enhanced EAP services that are multi-lingual.

Following a fresh partnership with EAP provider Workplace Options, a multi-lingual EAP service is now offered to the employer’s staff across the globe.

Additional wellbeing support now includes lifestyle coaching, weight management, quitting smoking advice and stress management.

The company has said the impetus behind its enhanced offering is to engage with employees in “culturally relevant ways” depending on where they are based.

An article about the new service can be read here. 

UK EAPA chair Eugene Farrell says: “At UK EAPA we are always urging businesses to find ways of boosting employee engagement. That must include staff who are not necessarily all based in one country.

“It’s also worth remembering that in many businesses, employees may also be based ‘far away’ from a central UK base, whether that’s in another country or because they are working remotely.

“Excellent EAP services will be set up so as to include all staff in feeling engaged and aware and able to access their EAP. That’s where technology, apps, integrated websites and other advances can really help bring it home to people that their employment includes these important benefits that are there to care for them and support them when they need them.”