Legal & General Group Protection has partnered with Spectrum.Life to expand its ‘Be Well. Get Better. Be Supported’ wellbeing framework.
The partnership offers all current and future clients across their group life assurance, group income protection, and group critical illness cover a digital, integrated wellbeing solution at no additional cost.
Spectrum.Life, a top provider of digital platforms for mental health and wellbeing, currently supports more than 2,000 organisations and more than 4 million employees in the UK and Ireland.
The proposal aims to simplify wellbeing and modernise the established Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) idea.
In this new arrangement, standard EAP services are combined with critical incident support, management consultations, and 24/7, 365-day access to therapists (including bereavement counsellors) and legal and financial information.
The Spectrum.Life platform and app adds value beyond traditional EAP support. This includes digital gym – live and on-demand fitness classes – and physical wellbeing pathways, including pre-created workout programmes, hundreds of exercises and tracking metrics, saving employees money on gym memberships, self-guided mindfulness and meditation, nutritional wellbeing pathways, including a wide range of handy recipes, mental health eLearning – clinician-led content on mental health, depression, anxiety, sleep, financial wellbeing, parenting and more, through a combination of video, blogs, podcasts, webinars and articles and online shopping discounts.
Legal & General Group Protection head of product and proposition James Walker says: “ We are enhancing our group protection proposition with today’s announcement of this exciting product enhancement, which we believe takes the EAP concept to the next level. Our overriding goal is to help thinking in the market with regards to removing fragmentation and unnecessary complexity in wellbeing across all our products and, in doing so, put wellbeing in the hands of as many employees as possible.
“Our new partnership with Spectrum.Life is directly aligned with that goal, helping bring together all the pillars of wellbeing in the one place, plugging everything into both our expert in-house clinical support and existing services where appropriate, such as Virtual Clinic, launched last year as part of Group Income Protection.
“Through simplification and connectivity, we hope to encourage day-to-day usage – in a preventative and proactive way – thereby helping realise value for both people and business.”
Spectrum.Life CEO Stephen Costello says: “ In Legal & General Group Protection we believe we’ve found a partner who’s as passionate about making workplace wellbeing more manageable, customisable and accessible than ever, for companies of all sizes, as we are. Combining our wellbeing and technology expertise with Legal & General’s outcomes-focused framework – Be Well. Get Better. Be Supported. – we can provide full-service, integrated solutions, all in the one place; not only helping more employees and their families, but also helping those tasked with managing wellbeing in the workplace.”