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Multiple firms made announcements, plus BMO's Auerbach released a long-awaited retirement note

Multiple firms made announcements, plus BMO's Auerbach released a long-awaited retirement note

Lauren Bailey For years, digital offerings played second banana to in-person options for many employers aiming to connect with and support employees. Not anymore. As employers and employees face down year two of the coronavirus pandemic, digital supports have moved from understudy to centre stage. “The pandemic has changed the environment significantly, as we all know, and what it brought into focus was well-being over anything else,” says David Fellows, senior vice-president of human resources at the Toronto Dominion Bank. TD is just one of many employers that rapidly adopted virtual hea...

Lauren Bailey For years, digital offerings played second banana to in-person options for many employers aiming to connect with and support employees. Not anymore. As employers and employees face down year two of the coronavirus pandemic, digital supports have moved from understudy to centre stage. “The pandemic has changed the environment significantly, as we all know, and what it brought into focus was well-being over anything else,” says David Fellows, senior vice-president of human resources at the Toronto Dominion Bank. TD is just one of many employers that rapidly adopted virtual hea...

Lauren Bailey Employees were increasingly using digital mental-health-care options for years, but the coronavirus pandemic shifted the trend into high gear. Since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic almost one year ago on March 11, 2020, providing some health-care virtually instead of in-person has become the norm. By the end of March 2020, all Canadian provinces and territories had declared some form of a state of emergency and lockdowns, leading both plan sponsors and members scrambling to find virtual ways to meet increased demand for mental-health care...