Fran Melmed, Author at Ere Media API

Fran Melmed

Fran Melmed is an award-winning HR communications consultant specializing in workplace wellness and health care consumerism. Prior to founding context communication consulting llc context communication, Fran worked at Hewitt Associates in their Talent and Organizational Change and Communication practices in the U.S. and U.K. Contact her at fran@contextcommunication.com, and follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/femelmed.

Three Days for Death (or Why HR Policies Make No Sense)

Fran MelmedMarch 2, 2015

Editor’s Note: A number of TLNT readers have asked about this post recently, so here it is again in case you missed it originally. This past week a … Read more

Our Email Addiction: Can We Keep it From Following Us Home From Work?

Fran MelmedMay 27, 2013

According to a new survey by GFI Software, email is alive and doing well in small- to mid-sized America. Some 44 percent of respondents use email over … Read more

How Far Can Employers Go In Mandating What Employees Eat?

Fran MelmedMay 16, 2013

I’ve yet to talk with someone about employee wellness without hearing about how an employer allows — if not actually provides — donuts or cupcakes or … Read more

The Workplace Ethics of Not Hiring Tobacco Users

Fran MelmedApril 15, 2013

As more employers consider how to reduce the percentage of tobacco users in their workforces, one policy in particular has raised eyebrows and hackles more … Read more

The Wellness Dilemma: Getting More Employee “Skin in the Game”

Fran MelmedApril 3, 2013

Last month I shared a story on health care costs titled The Bitter Pill. That might’ve been what CVS felt they swallowed when they saw their name … Read more

What to Tell Workers About That New Health Care Costs Line on the W-2

Fran MelmedFebruary 15, 2013

Whoa! What’s that new line item on my W-2? Is that taxable? Employers are starting to field questions like these from their employees. That’s because … Read more

Pew Study Shows That Employees Are Turning Into Health Care Consumers

Fran MelmedJanuary 23, 2013

Employees have heard you loud and clear, Ms. and Mr. Employer. They got the message that it’s time to become a savvy health care consumer. They’re out … Read more

Aon Hewitt Study: Stress Keeps Your Workers from Being Healthy

Fran MelmedJanuary 16, 2013

We have such good intentions, particularly at this time of year. We intend to eat better, get more sleep, head to the gym more often, budget better. Then … Read more

13 Easy and (Mostly) Low-Cost Employee Wellness Changes for 2013

Fran MelmedJanuary 11, 2013

Right about now, your employees are wondering whether they’ll keep their new resolutions or dust off the old ones and give them one more go. Even your … Read more

Connecting With Workers About Health Care? Call Their Cell Phone

Fran MelmedNovember 20, 2012

Our phones are fast becoming the ATM of health. That’s the upshot from the Pew Mobile Health 2012 report. Some 85 percent of American adults own a cell … Read more