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Financial Wellness & Education Programs

ADP launches a participant personalized journey campaign focusing itself as a retirement ally

ADP Retirement Services is improving overall retirement plan health and participant outcomes by leveraging technology, interactive content and a data-driven personalized experience to increase retirement awareness, enrollment and overall engagement during a participant’s retirement journey. For their efforts, ADP has earned a spot in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards in the Financial Wellness & Education Programs category.

For over 70 years, ADP has shaped how people work. The company sees itself as less of a retirement plan provider and more as a retirement ally. The organization offers a wide range of tailored qualified and nonqualified plan choices leveraging data and advanced technology to help drive plan success and manage administrative risk through seamless connections, personalized insights and education, flexibility in plan design and security ingrained in its solutions.

ADP uses demographic and employee data to create automated and personalized campaigns designed to encourage employees to save for the future. Each journey consists of multiple emails, and if the desired action is not taken, the next email in the journey is sent. If the participant does not act after the last email is sent, there is a four-month break before the participant is eligible for the next journey.

The personalized campaigns are divided into the following five participation types:

Employee Activation – targets eligible, not participating employees
Low Contributor – targets active employees, contributing between 1% and 5%
Zero Contributor – targets active employees who stopped contributing
Financial Wellness – targets active employees contributing >6%
Participant Termination – targets participants who have terminated and awaiting payment

ADP’s multi-touch personalized journey campaign is leveraged across its 100K+ plans as it continuously learns from internal data and metrics to help improve clients’ participants’ retirement financial outcomes. Through ongoing monitoring of results, the company has been able to build this program to increase education and savings across the various target audiences outlined above.

Results around education and increased changes for this campaign include, but aren’t limited to:

Avg open rate across the audiences is 30% (the national averages for similar industry segments, typical email campaign results for ‘Open Rates’ are 15% – 18%)
Total Enrollments is approximately 68,000
Number of individuals with a contribution increase is approximately 179,000

Additionally, ADP’s ongoing efforts have reached:

3,917,404 recipients
13,935,688 messages broadcast

Congratulations to the ADP team and for being a retirement ally.

Aduro Connect™

Aduro gives power back to employees when it comes to health and well-being

Employee wellness and health company Aduro’s programs have helped workers lose weight and take back control of their health. This work earned Aduro a spot on the Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List.

Employee wellness company Aduro is about human performance — not just professional performance. The company argues that the basic needs of a human being (food, water, shelter, rest and health) are equally as important as the need to feel safe, to socialize and to grow.

“All of these needs are part of being human,” Aduro writes. “Recognizing these needs is the first step toward creating a more human workplace. Technology was once seen as what pushed businesses forward, but as adopting new technologies has become more standard practice, it can hold you back. Getting back to the basics of recognizing what makes us all human is what makes businesses stand out today.”

The company’s software aims to “reignite humanity in the workplace” by engaging workers through a branded app in which Aduro offers health coaching and mental health resources alongside six holistic well-being areas:

Lifestyle & health
Development & growth
Mindset & resilience
Money & prosperity
Purpose & contribution
Relationships & community

Health system Mercy Health implemented Aduro’s Human Performance program for its health care providers and saw meaningful results.

Stacy Jones, a Mercy Health nurse and Human Performance coaching participant, realized that in order to take better care of her patients and her colleagues, she needed to prioritize her own health and well-being.

“When I started working with my Human Performance coach, I was able to realize it’s important to take care of yourself so you can take care of others,” she says.

Amy Stewart, the manager of a sleep disorder center with Mercy Health, says she was unhealthy before starting the program — but it inspired her to chase a meaningful goal.

“I never knew I could have it in me to run a half marathon,” she says. “I signed up for that as a goal, to push myself. It might seem like it’s not possible, but you have to become okay with being uncomfortable.”

Congratulations to Aduro for their win.

Beezy Digital Workspace

Beezy brings distributed workforces closer with an intelligent digital workplace

Software company Beezy has created an all-in-one intelligent digital workplace, built for the Microsoft platform. No matter where employees are located — in the office, at home or on the road — the digital workplace makes it simple for employees to create, find and engage with everything they need. For their efforts, Beezy has earned a spot in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards in the Tools & Technologies for a Distributed Workforce category.

So many employees today are disengaged, disconnected and overwhelmed with apps and tools that don’t integrate well. With the unprecedented shift to hybrid work models, combined with increasing employee expectations for better ways to collaborate, communicate and connect, more organizations are looking for a solution to drive engagement, connect their employees to each other, and simplify the user experience.

The Beezy solution replaces outdated intranets with an intelligent digital workplace that consolidates employee productivity tools in one intuitive professional environment that’s 100% native to Microsoft. It can be accessed no matter where they are or what device they’re using.

With this solution, workflows are automated, communication is easy, and collaboration is a focus resulting in more productive employees.

Beezy has been recognized as a leading digital workplace solution for supporting a distributed workforce by being included in the following:

IDC named Beezy a leader in their IDC MarketScape Worldwide Content Management Systems for Authenticated Digital Workplaces — a key report for any organization evaluating tools and technology to support a distributed workforce. Thirty-three criteria areas, grouped by strategy and capability were assessed including personalization, security, administration, workflow, scalability, innovation and product vision.
Lecko, a leading technology industry analyst based in France, ranked Beezy as a Digital Workplace leader in their 2022 report.
Forrester NowTech: Intranet and Employee Communications Platform report which helps technology decision-makers understand, identify and shortlist vendors aligning with their most critical business technology issues. Clearbox Consulting Intranets and Employee Experience Platforms Report, 2022 features Beezy as one of the world’s top digital workplace solution providers. In its report, Clearbox highlights how Beezy stands out with “powerful content editing, rich social collaboration, and a framework for the digital workplace”.

Kudos to the Beezy team and their solution.

WellPak/Mental Health Solutions

ArmadaCare tackles mental health benefits deficiencies with a supplemental insurance product

Launched over a year ago, healthcare and insurance services firm ArmadaCare’s WellPak is employer-sponsored supplemental health insurance addressing mental health benefits shortcomings, providing coverage and resources to combat workplace stressors, burnout and anxiety. For this endeavor, ArmadaCare has earned recognition in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards in the Mental Health Solution Programs and Additional Benefits Programs categories.

According to the Kaiser Foundation, 50% of Americans say the COVID-19 crisis is harming their mental health while 35% say anxiety over the pandemic interferes with their workplace productivity. Seeing the rise in mental health treatment and support, ArmadaCare, an insurance program manager serving the employer market, launched the supplemental insurance product WellPak to help employees pay for the inevitable out-of-pocket costs of care.

WellPak was designed for all types of employers to deal with the business impact of unaddressed employee mental health issues including absenteeism, presenteeism, reduced productivity, higher turnover and lower morale. WellPak allows employers to recognize that mental health is as important as physical health, removing the stigma associated with seeking care — giving their employees professional guidance, support and care needed to bring their best selves to work.

WellPak offers a unique combination of mental health and well-being benefits and services together in one plan and offers:

Indemnity insurance coverage for common routine health expenses, along with mental health and well-being treatments
Flexible eligibility as determined by the employer
Plan conveniences, like member services team, Member Portal and mobile app

WellPak also incorporates Connect & Thrive services through a workplace wellness partnership which includes assessment, guidance, and follow-up by a dedicated Specialty Care Consultant to one of the following four pathways:

Well-being coaching (physical, social, career and financial health)
Behavioral health coaching (performance improvement, coping exercises, resilience and skill-building)
Navigation to counseling for mental health/substance use (research, screen and qualify up to three providers for members to choose from)
Navigation to treatment for severe chronic Issues (find and access the best treatment resources, such as in-patient rehabilitation, psychiatrists and psychologists)

With this new mental health supplemental insurance offering, ArmadaCare has generated a lot of interest and we congratulate the team for their efforts.

Engaging Employee Wellness Programs

Limeade’s proprietary research, culture of care engages and motivates employees

Limeade’s employee wellness program helped inspire State of Washington employees to get healthier and learn about caring for their bodies. Science and care make up the employee experience for companies that use the wellness company Limeade. This combination found them a spot on Ragan’s Workplace Hot List.

For the team at employee wellness company Limeade, science is everything. The organization’s integrated approach to employee well-being drives employee participation and results in happier workers. Through the Limeade Institute, Limeade conducts its own research into what makes a great employee experience.

“The Institute conducts research and shares insight on the science behind creating great employee experiences,” the Limeade website says. “The team’s findings support Limeade solutions and drive innovations like the unique Limeade Well-Being Assessment, the Limeade Results Model, and our unique approach to organizational support.”

The Limeade model posits that if companies care for their employees, employees can take better care of themselves and their colleagues, which leads to positive business outcomes.

Organizations like Bosch, Covenant Health and Iowa State University trust Limeade to help their employees take better care of themselves through programs, which include raising awareness about employee benefits, training managers on understanding well-being support resources, and providing actionable insights.

When the State of Washington wanted to up the ante on well-being benefits for its more than 270,000 state employees, it turned to Limeade. Limeade worked with Washington’s Health Care Authority (HCA) to launch SmartHealth, an online well-being program for state employees and their families. Employee testimonials show the implementation of SmartHealth made a difference in the State of Washington’s employee experience strategy.

“I’ve been involved in a lot of health and wellness programs over the years and nothing is like SmartHealth,” says Cathie Browning, a State of Washington employee. “I feel it’s a clear indication the state is focused on telling people that we want you to stay, and we’re trying to engage you.”

Browning adds: “SmartHealth has a wealth of options, which other programs that I’ve experienced in the past do not. You have education about all sorts of topics like nutrition, wellness, or how to be happier. You also have classes where you learn more about specific issues of nutrition and how your body metabolizes different sorts of foods.”

Good work on the part of the team at Limeade.

Bravo Wellness uses data-backed solutions to promote employee wellness

With data-based solutions and insights, Bravo Health takes a numbers-backed approach to employee wellness. This work earned Bravo a place on Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List

Bravo Wellness believes you need evidence-based solutions to see results. They bring this data-backed approach to their employee wellness programs, which engage employees typically hard to reach and measurably improve their health.

The team at Bravo Wellness handles everything for the organizations that choose to work with them. This includes marketing the program to workers and tech support.

“Our goal is to remove the work from your team’s shoulders,” the Bravo website reads. “That’s why we have a team dedicated to keeping your program on track. We provide a clear timeline with milestones and regular calls for status updates, proactive escalation of issues with solutions, and insights to help you make better-informed decisions.”

Data is a central part of Bravo’s offerings. The company offers not only biometric data, it also sections and analyzes the data it collects. From wellness incentives and health coaching to health screenings and employee engagement programs, Bravo’s wellness solutions are comprehensive. Bravo also integrates with companies’ existing health benefits and wellness programs, making it easy for employees to learn the software and create healthy habits.

In a five-year study of Bravo’s manufacturing industry clients, 81% of participants maintained their health or reduced health risk. In the same timeframe, employees shed a total of 65,420 pounds and 18% of employees smokers quit.

“As a facility manager participates in the wellness program, I highly encouraged all associates to sign up and attend the screenings,” said David W., a manufacturing manager and Bravo program participant. “We had a great turnout and the vibe of being health conscious extended throughout the plant. I appreciate that the Bravo wellness program brings this important topic to our attention.”

Congratulations to the Bravo Wellness team.

Caregiver Support Platform

Cariloop is on a mission to relieve the stress and anxiety felt by all caregivers

Employee caregivers face countless considerations when making decisions regarding the care of their loved ones. Health and wellness company Cariloop’s mission is to support caregivers by providing the world’s first human-powered Caregiver Support Platform. It helps them plan and manage the care of their loved ones. Cariloop’s efforts have earned a spot in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards in the Child Care/Elder Care Benefits category.

Approximately 73% of employees are caregivers and spend an average of 24 hours per week on caregiving responsibilities including making decisions about the care of those they love. From understanding costs of care to vetting care providers to ensuring state-specific forms are in order, the challenges can seem endless. Employee caregivers need someone to go on the care journey with them — someone to be in their corner as they navigate the ongoing unknowns and challenges.

Founded in 2012, Cariloop provides the world’s first human-powered Caregiver Support Platform to help working caregivers and families plan for and manage the care of their loved ones. The Platform pairs caregivers with a dedicated, experienced Care Coach who guides families through the many decisions they make over the length of their caregiving journey, all while collaborating on a digital care portal that helps families securely communicate across all their devices and store important health, financial and legal documents.

The needs of employee caregivers are far too great for transactional services to be enough and far too varied and nuanced to allow for point solutions for each need that comes up. Having the support of experienced care professionals to help navigate the complex needs of each individual employee caregiver is what separates Cariloop’s Care Coaches from other services in the industry.

The Care Coaching team is made up of a diverse range of care professionals including nurses, social workers, facility administrators, educators, pediatric specialists and more. The collaboration and responsiveness of this holistic team of care professionals ensure employees get the support they need in any caregiving situation, and no question is too small. Ultimately, the Care Coaches shoulder the load of caregiving tasks so employees can stress less and remain present at work and at home.

To ensure integrity, Cariloop does not accept referral fees from providers the Care Coaches recommend. It also does not limit access to services based on eligibility criteria. The company also supports employees with the care of whoever they consider family, acknowledging the reality that employees often have many people in their lives who count on them outside of immediate familial relations.

Congratulations to the Cariloop team!

Coveo for Workplace

Coveo helps organizations find internal information faster through an AI-powered enterprise search solution

The accelerated transition to remote and hybrid work has imposed a new type of information overload on knowledge workers. Most alarming of all is its impact on employees’ well-being. Coveo’s search solution uses machine learning to ensure employees can find what they need now — and beyond. This earned them recognition in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards in the Tools & Technologies for a Distributed Workforce category.

Today’s digital workplace is an increasingly complex matrix of tools and applications. Sixty percent of people surveyed by software-as-a-service developer Coveo require four or more applications to get their work done daily, while 15% require seven or more. These employees waste an increasing amount of time sifting through irrelevant information just to find what they require.

Because of the increasing digital workspace, 31% of those surveyed reported feeling burned out from data-finding frustrations, and 16% said they were ready to quit as a result — making it one of the lesser-known factors driving workers to leave their employers.

Coveo’s AI-powered enterprise search solution alleviates this problem by making company information easier to find. It brings all company knowledge into one search index and enables the delivery of that knowledge almost anywhere within the digital workplace. This provides more relevant search results and content recommendations, boosting proficiency.

By streamlining and simplifying the digital workplace, Coveo has had the following outcomes for clients:

Increased employee satisfaction by up to 3x on intranet platforms
Increased employee engagement by up to 99%
Increased search efficiency by up to 100%

What sets the Coveo solution apart is the personalized knowledge discovery tailored to each employee, based on their role, location and previous interactions across the workplace. That’s how it filters out the noise to give employees just what they need. It gives them respite from the onslaught of information due to messaging apps, emails, video calls, intranets and various SaaS applications.

Coveo is also unique in its ability to bring this personalized knowledge experience into the tools employees are already using, via native integrations with platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google Chrome and various off-the-shelf intranet products. This creates a holistic, connected experience across the digital workplace, helping employees to feel “at home” wherever they’re working.

Going forward, Coveo will continue to innovate with connectors and integrations that can bring knowledge into employees’ workflow, saving them time and reducing frustration.

Congratulations to the Coveo team and their AI-powered search.

Workplace Ergonomics

Ergotron’s latest innovation helps employees thrive through ergonomics

A company that uses human-centered design to build kinetic workspaces is being recognized for Workplace Ergonomics in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards.

The corporate world is changing once again with employees returning to the office after months of working at home, navigating a hybrid arrangement, or settling into remote work for the long haul.

In evolving work environments, Ergotron’s innovative TRACE Monitor Mount embraces movement to shape individual work experiences. It adapts to the ergonomic needs of each employee to create agile workspaces that effortlessly shift between users and tasks to encourage healthy movement, productivity and a collaborative spirit.

Ergonomics is intrinsic to workplace wellness — through the proper posture and technology positioning, employees can enhance their physical and mental well-being for their workday and beyond. In contrast with a traditional sedentary workstyle, using sit-stand workstations and monitor arms can positively impact musculoskeletal conditions, job performance, work engagement, occupational fatigue, sickness presenteeism, and benefit psychological outcomes such as daily anxiety and quality of life.

Active furniture infuses the workday with energy and choice in a way that naturally enhances productivity and makes the best use of technology. The adaptable design of TRACE encourages regular movement and an ergonomic fit to improve overall well-being.

Beyond physical well-being, TRACE supports overall mental health. With anxiety and depression on the rise due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to create low-stress, organized workspaces that enable productivity and a peaceful workday.

TRACE’s understated aesthetic complements the modern look of a home and office environment with a versatile design that can work in multi-use home spaces or shared work areas. It adds refinement and uniformity with integrated cable management that helps eliminate clutter and expose a more usable workspace.

Easy adjustability features with Ergotron’s Trace monitor mount and its other products inspire the ergonomic personalization that fosters a healthy workspace and workplace. The company’s aim to center on wellness is commendable and inspirational as it supports the workforce and beyond.

Kudos to Ergotron!

FinFit's Financial Wellness Platform

FinFit is on a mission to help half a million clients ease financial stress

A holistic financial wellness platform that includes premier educational resources, online money management tools, financial coaching, financial solutions and many more offerings has earned recognition for Employee Engagement Technology & Measurement Solutions and Financial Wellness & Education in Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Hot List Awards.

FinFit’s mission is to alleviate financial stress for employees and organizations across the U.S. by offering top-tier financial wellness products and services through a digital marketplace.

FinFit’s SaaS-based model provides a holistic suite of services that includes:

Personalized financial assessment
Premier educational resources
Online money management tools
Financial coaching
Financial solutions
Early wage access
Banking and savings accounts
Student loan services
Member rewards program

A focus on creating positive, healthy financial behaviors and products to support behavioral change can increase employee retention and productivity for both Fortune 100 companies and small businesses.

Employers offering FinFit’s suite of financial wellness resources to their workforce can increase employee retention by 25% and save nearly $2 million annually for every 1,000 employees. They receive benchmark reports to show them the level of employee engagement with the benefit as well as their positive behavioral change and improved levels of financial health.

FinFit’s financial wellness platform was established with 150,000 employers as of January 2021. FinFit is now established with over 220,000 employers and is projected to expand beyond 550,000 clients by the end of 2022.

FinFit’s business model is based on a proprietary assessment tool that uses employee-reported data in combination with data received through integrated payroll, banking, and money management systems to establish each individual’s financial journey. The mobile-first, AI-driven platform prioritizes employees’ financial needs based on their unique financial situation.

FinFit’s mission to deliver financial services and products through its digital platform encourages healthy financial behaviors and products to support behavioral change. The platform is aiming to expand to more than 550,000 clients by the end of 2022.

Ragan is ecstatic to celebrate FinFit’s accomplishments!

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