Employers Rely On EAPs As Strategic Organizational & Risk Management Partners

Employers are relying on employee assistance programs (EAPs) to provide leadership consulting, in addition to providing employee mental health services, according to an analysis of organizational consulting cases.

The analysis was based on a five-year data set from AllOne Health, a national EAP in the United States. The researchers profiled the characteristics of 10,641 users of organizational services and profiled the characteristics of 5,251 users of formal management referral counseling. The total sample featured over 2,000 different employers who varied in size from under 250 to over 340,000 workers (the median was about 1,200 . . .