Shaking Up Employee Assistance Programs with Jonas Eyford, Recharge Wellness

Employee Assistance Programs, when done correctly, can help you support your employee's health and wellbeing.Bill Banham's guest this time is Dr. Jonas Eyford, CEO at Recharge Wellness, a company offering custom wellness programs for organizations across Canada. The firm provides an employee support service (to enhance or replace an EFAP), on-site clinics, and wellness webinars.In late 2022, Jonas and his team made a major upgrade by launching a disruptive EAP which, he says, is "set out to fracture the stale reality of poor engagement with a wholly different approach to EAPs & mental health."Questions for Jonas include: In terms of mental and physical health,  how much harm did the pandemic do to the wellbeing of today's employees? Tell us about the new Employee Assistance Programme from your team and why it's unique. What HR processes need to be in place to support EAPs? What about HR leaders? Do they get enough support?Why is the use of mental health benefits consistently lower in older generations? Does the EAP industry need disruption? If so, why?More About JonasJonas is a chiropractor and consultant living in Toronto. He is passionate about transformation, exploring the challenges of behavior change through physical and psychosocial means.He founded Recharge Wellness in 2013. Clients include Loblaw Digital, Flipp, Top Hat, Wave HQ, Loopio, CGI, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Clio, Architech, Soho VFX, League, Universe, Invesco, Vena Solutions, and Supreme Cannabis.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here.Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our newsletterCheck out our in-person events