Take a Mindful Minute with deep inhales and long exhales. Relax your shoulders and close your eyes. Either let your mind wander or repeat a positive phrase during this time.
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Constant negative comments impacts our mental state so take a minute to be mindful to promote positivity; increasing empathy, compassion and self care. Listen carefully to peaceful sounds that are drowned out by daily noise. Look for all the shades of color we miss when we’re distracted.
Skin cancer is the most common kind of cancer wherein 1 in 5 people will have it within their lifetime. Skin cancer, however, is very preventable and is getting easier to test with advances in technology including the use of telemedicine.
Telemedicine has become more accurate and cost saving than seeing a specialist. It can determine, with great accuracy, the likelihood that an abnormal growth is cancerous or not through image analysis rather than having to provide multiple skin samples for testing*. To learn more about telemedicine, contact your provider or an EBC consultant.
Feel free to use the graphics below to spread awareness with your family, friends and coworkers.
*data provided by The Sounds of Nevi: Diagnosing Skin Cancer More Accurately With a New Deep Learning Technology and Telemedicine
Prepare for 2019 with Employee Benefit Consulting
Another year brings another opportunity to assess your company’s needs. Whether you’re an HR manager for a large company or a small business owner the anticipation of growth for the upcoming year is exciting but doesn’t come without some struggles. Benefit News lists the Top 10 HR challenges for 2019. We also sent a survey to our clients at the end of 2018 asking them what their biggest HR concerns were. Among the top concerns were: tracking employee activities (i.e. payroll, PTO and leave), staying compliant on a federal and state level, ensuring costs are low for comprehensive benefits and the time it takes to do all these activities plus all other HR related duties.
We want you and your employees to maintain a healthy work/life balance. We have solutions for you to help track employee activities, send updates on state and federal regulations and save time with documentation preparation and more.
Please contact us with any questions, comments, concerns or if you would like a demonstration of the programs that we have available for you and your employees.
We wish you a productive, healthy and prosperous 2019!
The holiday season is upon us and as we reflect on this past 12 months, I find myself being truly grateful of life events that create memories and stories to tell for years to come. I remember when I was my son's age (12 years old) and watching my parents take care of my grandparents. This "sandwich" generation is now where I am today. I have a son that has entered middle school with all its challenges in addition to making sure my father is maintaining his health and independence. The difference from when I was growing up is the technology of keeping in touch with family. I wouldn't say it is much easier to be in the "sandwich" generation but with the smartphones and other means to communicate with family, the daily texts and calls feel like we are living in the same place. Telecommuting has been around for years and with integrating online cloud storage systems and virtual office platforms, the business needs and family needs can be manageable. I have always believed in a work/life balance and in our business world today, we can have both.
I recently came upon this article about telecommuting. The trends appear to show that telecommuting is increasing its ground with businesses. I am curious to see where the trend will be over the next five years:
https://blog.ifebp.org/index.php/telecommuting-who-offers-what-why
Leave your comments below on your thoughts about telecommuting.