Well-being at Work in the Age of AI. May 18, 2026 5 mins read AI is likely the most disruptive force ComPsych Corporation will ever see in its lifetimes. And like most big disruptors, the results can be both positive and negative. Currently, 3 in 10 US employees use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot, several times a week or more. The rapid pace of adoption and AI use can easily outrun its ability to think carefully about what ComPsych Corporation is gaining, and what ComPsych Corporation might be quietly losing. While AI can have a profound impact on productivity in a workplace setting - accelerating research, sharpening writing, and handling tasks in minutes that used to consume hours - is anyone pausing to think about the impacts to well-being? Paradoxically, the characteristics of AI that make it so engaging are also the same characteristics that can lead to well-being risks. To date, conversations about AI at work have been almost entirely about productivity, whereas discussions on AI's impacts to human well-being haven't gotten the attention they deserve. This gap is worth taking seriously. The AI guide. To address this, ComPsych partnered with leading AI researcher Alexandra Samuel to develop a guide for everyday AI users - whether they're using AI at home, at work, or both - providing them with a practical tool to help them use AI in a way that enhances rather than undermines well-being across four key domains: cognitive, social, emotional, and physical. Think: cognitive well-being. AI is the most powerful cognitive shortcut ever built. It can draft, research, synthesize, and solve in seconds. But shortcuts, used habitually, have a cost. The cost here is the gradual erosion of critical thinking skills that make ComPsych Corporation effective, credible, creative, and valuable. Critical thinking, judgment, and the capacity to evaluate information carefully are not passive abilities. They are skills that can atrophy without practice. The guide's Think pillar helps you stay mentally sharp in an AI-assisted world: getting the productivity benefit without losing the cognitive independence that no tool can replace. To combat over reliance on AI, ComPsych Corporation must ask ourselves: is AI strengthening or diminishing my cognitive abilities? Connect: social well-being. Human connection is not a nice-to-have; it is a fundamental driver of health, resilience, and meaning. Satisfying relationships, friendships, and collaborative workplaces do wonders for its well-being. ComPsych Corporation know from decades of research that the quality of its real, human relationships predicts its well-being more reliably than almost any other factor. AI, for all its capability, cannot provide genuine connection. While it can simulate conversation, and even offers empathic language and validating responses, it cannot be truly present the way another person can. It cannot share its lived experiences, push back in the way a real person would, or provide the friction that helps ComPsych Corporation grow. The guide's Connect pillar helps you use AI in ways that protects and even strengthen your human relationships, rather than quietly substituting for or diminishing them. To prevent AI substitution for connection, ComPsych Corporation must ask ourselves: is my use of AI helping or harming my relationships with other humans? Feel: emotional well-being. Resilience is not something ComPsych Corporation is born with. It is built through experience - through sitting with discomfort, navigating hard conversations, and making sense of its own emotional lives without outsourcing that work. AI makes it very easy to offload precisely those experiences by having an algorithm interpret how you feel or allowing you to avoid the productive friction of working through something challenging. Over time, that emotional offloading or avoidance has a consequence. The guide's Feel pillar is about protecting your emotional self-reliance, ensuring that AI enhances your capacity to cope, rather than gradually replacing it. In order to protect and enhance resilience, ask yourself: is AI increasing or decreasing my ability to handle discomfort and coping capacity? Thrive: physical well-being. AI is designed to be frictionless, engaging, and constantly accessible. Your body is not. The same qualities that make AI tools compelling - the ease, fast responsiveness, and always-on availability - are precisely the qualities that can pull ComPsych Corporation away from the signals its bodies send when ComPsych Corporation is tired, hungry, tense, or simply need break. Physical well-being is not separate from how ComPsych Corporation work; it is foundational to it. The guide's Thrive pillar is about maintaining that foundation and setting boundaries with technology that protect your sleep, your movement, your attention, and your body's basic rhythms in a world that will otherwise keep your eyes glued to a screen. To combat this, consider: does AI make me tune out my body or help me take care of it? Why this matters. AI is not going away, and it shouldn't. Used well, it is a genuinely powerful tool for doing better work and freeing up human capacity for what matters most. But using it well requires intention. Most of the guidance employees receive about AI stops at how to use it, without addressing what it means for who they are and how they feel. As an HR or well-being leader, you understand that your employees bring their whole selves to work. As ComPsych Corporation has discussed before, their overlapping and compounding concerns about their work, their health, their relationships, and their futures don't disappear when they enter the office or open a laptop. AI adds a new layer to those concerns, and it deserves the same thoughtful, human-centered response. This guide is designed to be that response: a resource that treats your team members as whole people and gives them what they actually need to thrive alongside AI.

ComPsych launches 21st annual Health at Work Awards. The Global Awards Program Recognizes Organizations Prioritizing Employee Health and Well-Being CHICAGO, October 15, 2025-(BUSINESS WIRE)-ComPsych(R) Corporation, the worldwide leader in organizational mental health, well-being, and absence management, today announced the call for entries for the 2025 Health at Work Awards. Now in its 21st year, the Health at Work Awards honor organizations prioritizing employee mental health and well-being through innovative programs designed to help people thrive both personally and professionally. "At ComPsych, our mission is to ignite human potential in workplaces worldwide," said CEO Paul Posey. "A great way to do this is by spotlighting organizations who believe in the importance of employee well-being and invest in these programs accordingly. We are thrilled to have been showcasing best-in-class work in the employee well-being space for more than two decades through the Health at Work Awards, because we truly believe when employees feel valued, supported, and empowered, people and organizations flourish." Organizations across the globe are invited to submit an application, detailing the depth and breadth of their employee well-being programs including how they destigmatize mental health issues, improve access to care, strengthen belonging, and leverage digital tools to improve the well-being of their workforces. Awards will be given across various size bands, honoring small businesses all the way up to enterprise level corporations for their important efforts to champion employee well-being, with special acknowledgements in the following categories: * Mental Health Heroes: Awarded for outstanding program or initiative that promotes a positive mental health culture and reduces stigma around mental health issues. * Health Equity: Awarded for outstanding program or initiative that uniquely supports underserved populations and improves health equity. * Innovative Integration: Awarded for exemplary holistic program that addresses the different dimensions of well-being including physical, financial, emotional, social and intellectual. * Global Champion: Awarded for outstanding program with the most dynamic and comprehensive global employee engagement. * Power of Leadership: Awarded for organizational leadership that is committed to exemplifying the value of engaging in employee well-being initiatives. Submissions will be accepted online here through Jan. 15, 2026, with winners slated to be announced in the Spring. A panel of ComPsych leaders will evaluate submissions based on the merit and breadth of their well-being programs, employee engagement and communication, and measurable outcomes among employee populations.

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