EAPs

A Canadian study of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) shows some not particularly suprising results. But doesn't it seem wrong that this is tracked? I thought all this stuff was private....

"Employees in their thirties were the most likely to access EAP formarital-relationship issues. In fact almost one-quarter ofthem access counselling services to resolve relationship issues."
The report also showed that 22 per cent of men who accessed EAP services did so to specifically explore issues related to their personal relationships.

Surprisingly, only 17 per cent of women who accessed EAP services did so for the same problem. This means, that despite the traditional stereotyping, men are willing to express concerns and to work at resolving serious relationship issues. [Or it means that women feel more threatened in the workplace and don't feel safe discussing these issues with EAP.] The report also uncovered the fact that more supervisors and managers(20% of them) accessed EAP for marital/relationship discord than other employees (18% of them). [does this surprise you? not me!]

Specifically:
- Male supervisors and managers under 40 years of age, with fewer years of service, access EAP for relationship problems more often than the average employee (39% versus 24% of average employees).
- Female supervisors and managers between 30 and 49 years of age, working full-time and with fewer years of service, access EAP for relationship problems more often than the average employee (31% versus 24% of average employees).