EAP-s have shown to benefit different areas of employees personal and workplace lives:

• Improving work adjustments, engagement, productivity and enhancing performance

• Enhancing team building

• Assisting with job retention, decrease in absenteeism (being away from work for any reason) and presenteeism (being present at work with decreased mental and/or physical functioning, where functioning is the ability to deal with day to day tasks)

• Decrease in workplace distress and improvement in quality of work-life

• Presented problem improvement

• Improvement in personal health

• Improvement in life satisfaction

• Better overall functioning

Resource: Beulah Joseph, Arlene Walker & Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz (2017): Evaluating the effectiveness of employee assistance programmes: a systematic review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2017.1374245