Understanding Your Travel Benefits
The winter holidays are fast approaching and many staff and faculty are preparing for vacations both at home and abroad. A medical emergency while travelling can be a frightening and also costly experience. Join UBC Benefits Administrator, Janet McHugh, in this 1-hour session on understanding your travel benefits and ensure that your well-earned vacation is as stress […]
Shepell ~ Let Us Help
Shepell your Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) provides you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life concern. They are available anytime and anywhere. This presentation will provide an overview and question & answer period of the various services available through UBC’s EFAP. Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. […]
Lighten Up Your Day
Injecting humour both at work and in your personal life is just what the doctor ordered. Laughing does not just feel good, it also has a positive effect on your health by helping to relieve stress, tension, and anxiety and by increasing your heart rate and blood circulation. Humour also offers far-reaching psychological benefits, as […]
Understanding Your Travel Benefits
The spring and summer are fast approaching and many staff and faculty are preparing for vacations both at home and abroad. A medical emergency while travelling can be a frightening and also costly experience. Join UBC Benefits Specialist, Stephanie Mah, in this 1-hour session on understanding your travel benefits and ensure that your well-earned vacation […]
Living Well with Stress
Presentation by Shepell for faculty and staff, no cost. Workplace stress can be triggered by many sources: heavy workloads with tight timelines, layoffs or restructurings, or difficult co-workers. When combined with the pressures and responsibilities outside of work, it is no wonder that employees may experience high levels of stress in their daily routine. Left […]
Corporate Health, Fitness & Family Discounts
UBC Perks Once you are part of UBC, you have access to a wide range of perks that are hard to find in one place elsewhere. Classes, concerts, cuisine, you name it! Check out all the great additions, on and off campus, listed on the UBC Okanagan Corporate Health, Fitness and Family Discountwebpage. Watch for more to come […]