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Research shows that 90%
of employees benefit from using Employee Assistance Programs.
Unproductive
and impaired employees cost your company time, energy, and
valuable resources According
to the US Department of
Health and Human Services:
- 25% of the US workforce experiences
problems that directly impact job performance and productivity.
- Troubled employees have 4
to 6 times more absences and file 3 to 4 times more medical
claims than their healthy co-workers.
- Legal or financial services
are needed by 90% of the working population.
- 70% of all current adult illegal
drug users are employed.
- Troubled employees account
for 65-85% of all industrial accidents.
Of
the nation's 11.8 million adult illicit drug users, 9.1 million
(77%) of them are employed in 2000. In addition, millions
of workers are problem drinkers.
Summary
of Findings from the 2000 National Household Survey on
Drug Abuse. DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 01-3549. Rockville
, MD : Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, 2001.
Investment benefit analysis proves
that employers save an average of $4 to $17 for every $1 envested.
--The Hurst Group

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