By Shayna Jacobs
If you want to shut up a consultant, just uninstall PowerPoint from his or her laptop! The same is true for most professionals—including executives, speakers, presenters, and sales and marketing people—for whom PowerPoint has become darn near life's necessity.
Results from a recent study show an increased rate of companies with family-oriented programs in place (sometimes called employee assistance programs) from five years ago, based on the collected data from 150 human resource professionals collected by Purchase, NY-based Sirota Survey Intelligence.
The survey asked the professionals about how their company uses resources to handle mental, emotional, health and childcare issues, with respect to their place in a family unit. According to the findings, 79 percent of respondents feel that "more employers should be" engaging in family promotion efforts. Results also show that 81 percent "said more employers have programs to assist employees in dealing with their personal problems than five years ago," says a Sirota press release. Respondents consisted of visitors to Sirota's Website, and e-mail contacts, some of which were the company's clients.
Sixty-one percent say that employers have stress-relief accommodations, and 74 percent agree that stress reducers are not adequate. "Understanding and knowing the best way to deal with a problem in the family helps the entire family," says president of Sirota, Douglas Klein. "EAPs take a lot of the burden off of employees in finding services for their families. This ranges from medical to behavioral to emotional treatment to elder care and child care facilities."
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