Why EAP?

Lochaber Hope provides short term professional counselling and other forms of professional support to your employees.

Both personal and work-related issues can affect performance at work and attendance. Research indicates that 60% of issues affecting performance at work are in fact personal issues with the remaining 40% being work-related.

Long-term absence is a serious and expensive issue for employers. Once an employee has been absent for six weeks, the chances of a return to work are halved, with feelings of isolation, depression and anxiety about going back often proving more debilitating than the original reason for absence.

Over half of all absent employees have been off work for more than six weeks.

Benefits of EAP include:

• Improved productivity and workplace efficiency.
• Reduction in sickness absence of 25-50%.
• Decreased work-related accidents.
• Less absenteeism and staff turnover.
• Reduces grievances.
• Decreases recruitment and increases staff retention.

Information & References

Recently more evidence is available than ever before on the benefits of workplace counselling due to the huge increase in workplace stress.

"Stress is, for the first time, the most common cause of long-term sickness absence for both manual and non-manual employees" Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)/simplyhealth Absence Management survey released on the 5th October 2011

"There is strong evidence that workplace counselling has a beneficial effect on psychological symptoms, on well being and on sickness absence" Professor John McLeod, School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay, Dundee

"Over a quarter (28%) of employers report an increase in the number of people coming to work ill in the last 12 months" Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)/simplyhealth Absence Management survey released on the 5th October 2011

"One in five people suffers from workplace stress, with half a million people reporting they have become ill as a result" direct.gov.uk

Employers Contact : alyson.smith@lochaberhope.org.uk

Telephone : 07780942977