Peter Freeburg, behavioral clinical strategist at Cigna, speaks to the mental health challenges that exist in the workforce today, and the employer imperative around fostering a more connected workforce that prioritizes health and well-being.

By helping employees improve their vitality—at work, at home, and in their communities—employers can create a culture of health that addresses the challenges that burned-out or disengaged employees face, and stimulate better business outcomes.

Despite the challenges many veterans face, recent research from Cigna Corporation reveals that the veteran population is living with greater vitality than the general U.S. population.

Cigna developed the Evernorth Vitality Index to fill an emerging need as people and businesses recover from the pandemic and look to improve health and well-being.

Our research suggests vitality is a catalyst for growth, and that when it is considered, cared for and strengthened, vitality can help people achieve the healthiest versions of themselves and inspire a ripple effect that can fuel healthier, more engaged families, workplaces and communities.

Two years ago, Cigna Corporation created Evernorth – an organization dedicated to making health care better. Today, we’re celebrating our successes and looking forward to the future.

Learn more about the different ways Cigna is taking action to protect, empower, and uphold a diverse workforce, and meet some of our external partners and internal employee resource groups that help us to achieve our diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.

For inspiration on how to improve health and happiness at work, we recently asked our Cigna Corporation colleagues to share their top tips for simple, effective ways to add more vitality to the workday. Continue reading for their ideas and suggestions.

Fostering a healthy workforce isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s good for business. A new study quantifies the business ROI of investing into the health and well-being of employees. Here are some of the top findings.

In this new phase of work, Cigna is thinking about its offices in a different light. We’re referring to our return-to-work strategy as “Purposeful Presence,” a concept that is intentionally simple and is based on our core belief that performance is based on outcomes, not physical presence.