{"id":20254,"date":"2020-11-20T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/majority-of-canadians-say-employer-should-offer-virtual-health-care-survey-152948"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:01:13","slug":"majority-of-canadians-say-employer-should-offer-virtual-health-care-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/majority-of-canadians-say-employer-should-offer-virtual-health-care-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Canadians say employer should offer virtual health care: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/131443630_l-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"123rf_ agenturfotografin\" title=\"Majority of Canadians say employer should offer virtual health care: survey\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 20, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The majority (70 per cent) of Canadians said they believe virtual health care represents the future, according to a new survey conducted by Environics Research and sponsored by Dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found the&nbsp;demand for more convenient virtual-care services is on the rise, with nearly half (46 per cent) of respondents&nbsp;saying the coronavirus pandemic&nbsp;has made it more difficult to access health care.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 82 per cent of respondents said their employer should provide access to virtual health care, while 66 per cent said they\u2019d be likely to use virtual health care if it was available through their workplace benefits plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/new-reality-of-workplace-includes-virtual-health-care-enhanced-mental-health-support-survey-148077\">\u2018New reality\u2019 of workplace includes virtual health care, enhanced mental-health support: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping employees safe and providing the appropriate care for their teams is expected from employers now more than ever,\u201d said Jeff Gladwish, vice-president of marketing at Dialogue, in a press release. \u201cEmployers are recognizing that providing employees with access to quality health and well-being resources has a direct connection to workplace productivity as well as the overall health of their business.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/majority-of-canadians-say-employer-should-offer-virtual-health-care-survey-152948\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 20, 2020 The majority (70 per cent) of Canadians said they believe virtual health care represents the future, according to a new survey conducted by Environics Research and sponsored by Dialogue. The survey&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}