What are the benefits of an EAP?
EAP-s have shown to benefit different areas of employees personal and workplace lives:
Improving work adjustments, engagement, productivity and enhancing performance
Enhancing team building
Assisting with job retention, decrease in absenteeism (being away from work for any reason) and presenteeism (being present at work with decreased mental and/or physical functioning, where functioning is the ability to deal with day to day tasks)
Decrease in workplace distress and improvement in quality of work-life
Presented problem improvement
Improvement in personal health
Improvement in life satisfaction
Better overall functioning
Resource: Beulah Joseph, Arlene Walker & Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz (2017): Evaluating the effectiveness of employee assistance programmes: a systematic review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2017.1374245