MedCity News December 27, 2024
These benefits set employees up with the resources and access to manage their health efficiently and proactively while giving employers financial savings throughout the year.
Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs pyramid offers a framework for understanding human psychology and motivation. To reach higher levels of meaning and purpose (like self-actualization), the theory goes, humans must first meet their basic physiological needs (for food, water, shelter, and rest).
A hierarchy of needs is a helpful framework for thinking about employer-sponsored benefits, too, especially in this era of ever-increasing healthcare costs.
At the base of the hierarchy (often portrayed as a pyramid) should be those benefits that let employees achieve or maintain basic physiological health – the “need to haves,” in other...