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Leveraging Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs) for mental health and emotional wellbeing
While many enjoy the flexibility of remote work, a significant number of workers report challenges related to mental health and well-being including but not limited to isolation, anxiousness, and feelings of overwhelm. Much of this can occur due to the blurred lines between work and personal life. Regardless of our work environment, we...

Case Study
Mile Two increased benefits utilization by 5x with JOON’s flexible, card-connected LSA
Mile Two is a software development company that relies on hiring and retaining experts to help clients push the boundaries of innovation in complex and regulated industries. As HR leaders know, to get the best performance out of great talent, it’s important to give them space and support to flourish. “Our work is at the cutting...

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Comparing prepaid cards, marketplaces, and card-connected wellness benefits
Finding the right lifestyle spending account (LSA) solution for your workforce is stressful. For People Teams investing in wellness benefits, there are countless tools and platforms, few of which will actually meet their workforce’s needs and expectations. Here are the factors to consider when introducing or changing your LSA, along...

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How to keep your pets happy and healthy
According to the American Pet Products Association, Americans spent $136.8 billion on their pets in 2022. Dog owners spent an annual average of $1,230 on their pets in 2022, while cat owners spent an average of $750. The growing popularity of pets is one of the main reasons for an ongoing increase in pet spending. Our furry friends...

Announcement
Announcing JOON 2.0: The future of lifestyle spending accounts and flexible wellness benefits
Our mission at JOON is simple: to make wellness more accessible. We do that by enabling organizations to offer truly flexible benefits and become overall better employers. Today we’re excited to announce a major step on our journey. We’ve completely overhauled our platform to make it easier than ever for workforces and individuals to...

Expert Advice
Our favorite wellness products of 2022
The wellness space can feel saturated and overwhelming, with tons of choices but also lots of important discoveries and research. As a wellness benefits platform used by 20,000+ professionals, we have front-row seats to the industry. I asked my team to share their favorite wellness products in 2022 as inspiration for our community. Here's...

Expert Advice
How to keep your body healthy and happy while working from home
In a survey of 25,000 Americans in spring 2022, Ipsos and McKinsey found that 58 percent of respondents reported having the opportunity to work from home at least one day a week and 35 percent of respondents report having the option to work from home five days a week. But these preferences to work from home, don’t come without...

Case Study
How Meow Wolf creates an incredible employee experience with better benefits
No company transports you to another universe quite as fantastically as Meow Wolf. Combining impressive artistry with powerful narratives, Meow Wolf has pioneered and perfected immersive experiences. They’ve also engineered an incredible employee experience with generous and inclusive benefits. “People choose Meow Wolf to be...

Case Study
How Betterment achieved hypergrowth with a remote-inclusive culture
With a suite of intuitive financial products, Betterment pioneered a smarter way for regular people to invest and grow their wealth like experts. They’ve applied the same principles toward investing in their workforce. Thanks to generous benefits – including JOON – that promote work-life balance and wellbeing, Betterment is...

Best Practice
Improve your career page to attract better candidates
There have never been more channels and tools to recruit top talent passively and actively. However, while platforms like Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and Indeed offer great exposure, such channels also restrict companies to a standardized profile in a sea of other companies. The best employers go beyond third-party sites and invest heavily in...
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Dugal Bain-Kim
Co-founder and CEO of Lifeforce