ERChealth Recognizes 10 Health Academy Award Recipients

Sponsored by ERC, ERChealth provides affordable, quality health insurance, underwritten by Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, for Ohio organizations with 51 to 500 employees. 

The ERChealth insurance program promotes employee wellness and provides employers innovative tools to help reduce claims and manage health insurance costs. Started in 1999 as a preferred risk pool in the state of Ohio, ERChealth offers an array of rewards for both employers and employees who make health and wellness a priority. 

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6 Ways to Help Employees Get Along

6 Ways to Help Employees Get Along

This blog post was originally published on April 4, 2012 and was updated on November 5, 2020.

Sometimes employees don’t get along and these conflicts and office disagreements can dampen productivity, waste time, reduce a team’s performance, make the work environment tense and uncomfortable, and increase stress in work groups – none of which are beneficial to your business. Here are a few ways managers can help reduce conflict on their teams.

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Talking Politics in the Workplace: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Talking Politics in the Workplace: Addressing the Elephant (or Donkey) in the Room

This blog post was originally published on Oct. 29, 2018, and it was updated on Oct. 7, 2020.

With the upcoming 2020 Election Day on November 3, to say that this year has been more politically charged than most is an understatement at best. So what happens when political discussions begin to (or maybe they already have) sneak into the workplace? Hopefully, nothing. Ideally the discussions remain just that—a civil discourse between employees, perhaps during their lunch hour.

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