Balancing budget constraints with benefit needs: Lyra's guide for leaders

In a recent Leaders conversation with Employee Benefit News, Grasso shared how leaders should be responding to sustained stress in the workplace, free and low-cost ways benefit managers can provide support, and how to pick a mental health benefit that's the right fit for an organization's...

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Published inEmployee Benefit News (Online)
Main Author Place, Alyssa
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York SourceMedia dba Arizent 13.08.2025
Subjects
Employee benefits
Employees
Employers
Human resource management
Mental health
Workforce
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Summary:In a recent Leaders conversation with Employee Benefit News, Grasso shared how leaders should be responding to sustained stress in the workplace, free and low-cost ways benefit managers can provide support, and how to pick a mental health benefit that's the right fit for an organization's budget and demographic. There's also a new kind of recalibrating of expectations among employees that drives pressure, too, where they're saying, some of these mental health benefits are table stakes to us. The more that those functions can come together and create a more cohesive and coordinated mental health strategy, the less that it has to fully rest on the benefits leaders' shoulders, and the less that it's as vulnerable to the changing budget constraints year–to-year that benefits leaders have to deal with.