Digital Health Companies Experience Difficulties As A Dissatisfied Market Expresses Concerns
Throughout the pandemic, a vast number of digital health companies have arisen that promise to enable individuals to seek advice from health and wellness professionals on-demand and from the safety of their homes. Though this digital shift is likely to prove beneficial in
Vaccine Incentives And Accommodations: A Review Of The EEOC’s Updated Guidelines
As the pandemic dies down and COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available, employers are looking to transition back into the workplace. This post reviews the EEOC’s updated guidelines to help businesses get back into the office in a safe and legal manner.
Seven Things Employers Can Do To Address The Pandemic’s Impact On Workplace Gender Equality
Pandemic-induced restrictions in combination with extant gender inequities have caused many women to consider leaving their jobs. This is bad in its own right but also because businesses thrive on diversity. Check out these seven actions employers can take to address this problem.
Robot Therapists
Psychologists and computer scientists have been working together to produce conversation artificial intelligence that play some of the therapeutic conversational roles that are typically saved for human psychotherapists (e.g., offering empathic responses and providing instructions on how to apply well-tested treatments like cognitive
Gamified Fitness: A Fad Or The Future?
In order to make working out easier, wellness experts have tried to make a game out of it. To determine if this approach to fitness can live up to the hype, Wellable analyzes the techniques that gamifiers have used and gestures at what
Pulse Check: A Crash Course in the Taxability of Wellness Incentives
Every month, Wellable asks a single question to the large, growing, and dedicated community of human resources and wellness professionals subscribed to the Wellable Newsletter. The question for May asked respondents if the organizations they work for tax their wellness program incentives. With
The Pandemic’s Regressive Effect On Gender Equality In The Workplace
COVID-19 has been exerting a deleterious effect on gender equality in the workplace, causing women to leave the workforce in disproportionate numbers and threatening to widen the gender pay gap. Wellable explains the significance of this trend and explores why the pandemic is
The Philosophy Of “Being Well”
Philosophers have been studying well-being for thousands of years. Despite this, many wellness-focused employers are unaware of what philosophers have to say about what it is to be well. Learn more about the work that philosophers of wellness have done and ways in
Taking The Stress Out Of Stress Management: How Emerging Anti-Stress Technologies Stand To Make Staying Calm Easier Than Ever
By eliminating the need to self-monitor one’s stress levels, providing direct suggestions on how to de-stress, and even automatically activating stress reducing changes in one’s environment, emerging anti-stress technologies stand to take out the stress from stress management and make staying calm easier