Employee Health Benefits Ideas

Here is a comprehensive compilation of the most creative employee health benefit ideas that enable innovative organizations deliver better value to their employees well beyond dental, health and pension options that most offer in their plans.

These ideas a relevant for all budgets and sizes of organizations and provide a simplified approach to Benefits planning to increase employee satisfaction.


 

 


 

 

Employee Benefits Ideas – Health Benefits

 

  • As part of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto’s health benefits plan, the organization offers a health spending account of up to $1,000, allowing employees to top-up coverage according to their personal needs

 

  • CAA South Central Ontario helps employees maintain their physical and mental well-being with weekly onsite visits from external fitness consultants who conduct stretch breaks and lead exercise and meditation classes — additionally, the organization offers a generous health spending account of up to $1,500 which can be used to cover health and wellness-related expenses

 

  • As part of Accenture’s LiveWell 365 initiative, the company encourages employees to maintain or improve their health, offering onsite health screenings across the country and hosting a variety of local health and wellness events

 

  • As part of the organization’s health plan, Dynacare offers flexible options including a health spending account, allowing employees to top-up coverage for expenses such as dental, orthodontics and eye care

 

  • As part of the company’s health benefits plan, Intelex Technologies offers a health spending account of up to $750, allowing employees to top-up coverage according to their personal needs

 

  • As part of the organization’s health benefits plan, Holland Bloorview provides a generous health spending account, allowing employees to top-up levels of coverage according to their personal needs (ranging from $1,000 to $4,500)

 


 

 

Human Resources

Human Resources Consulting Firm TorontoWhat drives a great HR strategy? We have found that the most reliable and persuasive HR strategies are built on the intersections of the company’s capabilities, uniqueness and seamless execution. Businesses have to address a unique set of barriers that often require deeper insight. Arcus offers a fact based approach to align an organization’s strengths with customer needs.

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Human Resources – Insights and Ideas

Human Resources – Insights and Ideas to help people managers optimize their strategies, strengthen retention and motivate staff. Read more.


 

Featured research: Beyond KPIs. The Importance of Building Trust.

Building Trust: “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” –Thomas Moore


 

trustMany leaders can attest to this experience: You ask your team to carry out a task that has enough flexibility for creative input. Rather than making their own decisions, the team comes to you with an onslaught of questions, trying to pin down the exact parameters of the task. 

 

The reason for this behaviour is a lack of trust or possibly gaps in competencies. The latest results of the Arcus Trust Index survey indicate that trust in business in Canada has declined precipitously by 12 points to 42% over the past year. We haven’t seen a 12-point dip in the Arcus Index (that includes 55 dimensions of trust) since the Enron days. People simply don’t trust others like they used to. Read more.