{"id":141,"date":"2020-05-07T01:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2020-05-07T01:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:13:51","slug":"employee-wellness-survey-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/employee-wellness-survey-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Wellness Survey during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metlife recently published the results of an employee benefits survey that was taken in part during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 Here are highlights of the results:<\/p>\n<p>With all the frightening headlines, one would assume that physical health would be the biggest concern of employees.\u00a0 However, that is not true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employees\u2019 biggest concern is their financial health, 8 points higher than physical health<\/li>\n<li>Both social health and emotional health are just as big of a concern as physical health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three of the five top reasons for financial concerns are directly related to COVID-19<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stock market decline due to COVID-19<\/li>\n<li>Threats to job security or income due to COVID-19<\/li>\n<li>Lack of emergency funds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although there are a complicated set of motivations, it appears that returning to work (and wages) if done safely, would be the best solution to reduce employee overall health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting survey results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More women (72%) than men (61%) are feeling stressed due to the pandemic<\/li>\n<li>Lower income earners (less than $50k) are feeling more stress than higher income earners (more than $100k), 70% and 62%, respectively<\/li>\n<li>More employees are feeling valued and appreciated during the pandemic (66%) than before the pandemic (56%)<\/li>\n<li>Employees who feel mentally, physically, socially, and financially healthy are over 50% more productive, successful, loyal, and engaged than employees who are not healthy in all four categories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Survey Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metlife.com\/content\/dam\/metlifecom\/us\/ebts\/pdf\/MetLife-Employee-Benefit-Trends-Study-2020.pdf\">https:\/\/www.metlife.com\/content\/dam\/metlifecom\/us\/ebts\/pdf\/MetLife-Employee-Benefit-Trends-Study-2020.pdf<\/a><!--7b0f691a--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metlife recently published the results of an employee benefits survey that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[6,15,26,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrnetsourcedemo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}