Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) are one way to ensure a happier and healthier workforce within a company, by providing an employer-sponsored advisory service that is confidential, voluntary, and provides counseling and referral services to employees and their family members.

Some of the difficulties covered by an EAP are as follows:

• Family difficulties
  
• Work-related difficulties
  
• Personal problems
  
• Dependency problems
  
• Legal problems
  
• Financial problems
  
• Elder care
  
• Child care

Using EAPs can improve employee health and productivity, all the while helping to keep benefits expenditures under control.