Shanghai, China, November 6, 2025 — Workplace Options’ WPO China Service Center has been honored with the “2025 HREC Compensation & Benefits Solution Provider Value Awards (EAP Vendor of Choice)”

The award was presented by the HR Excellence Center (HREC), China’s leading professional human resources membership organization. Now in its eighth year, the HREC Compensation & Benefits Solution Provider Value Awards are among the most credible and influential recognitions in China’s HR community. The contenders undergo a rigorous 3-month evaluation process, assessed on their contribution to organizational excellence and guided by HREC’s principles of fairness, transparency, and practicality.

People Meet Purpose Meet Productivity

This honor highlights WPO’s deep commitment to helping individuals and organizations across China and the world achieve greater psychological safety, workplace wellbeing, and employee resilience.

“At Workplace Options, we believe people’s wellbeing drives purpose; and purpose drives productivity,” said Alan King, President and CEO of Workplace Options. “I am proud of our China Service Center for advancing employee assistance and mental health services in China. This award represents our shared belief that every employee deserves access to compassionate and effective care, anytime and anywhere.”

The results were determined by analyzing verified feedback from 404 certified HR professionals, who conducted a comprehensive evaluation across multiple key dimensions such as market awareness, usage rates, and brand recommendation levels.

Summary of Results

• 400+ HR decision-makers across 20 industries were surveyed; only top-performing providers were short-listed.
• WPO scored 60.89 % in overall market awareness versus a 33.17 % participating vendor average.
• WPO market penetration rate reached 5.94 %, ahead of the 4.23 % peer mean.
• Most importantly, 75 % of current clients stated they would actively recommend WPO to other enterprises—exceeding the 64.42 % industry baseline.

WPO’s recognition demonstrates its long-standing impact in the Chinese market. Since 2016, WPO China Service Center has delivered high-quality, human-centered support through psychological counseling, life and health coaching, and resilience-building programs tailored to local workplace culture.

Helping People Thrive, Anytime and Anywhere

Since opening its China operations, WPO has partnered with leading employers to provide holistic, multi-level wellbeing solutions that combine clinical care with coaching, mindfulness, and education. Employee data collected in the WPO Center for Workplace Effectiveness 2025 Psychological Safety Study, showed a high rate of anxiety and stress that is related to wanting to perform at highly productive, competitive, and competent levels.

Data compiled by the HR Excellence Center (HREC) to determine the award winners revealed that 98% of participants felt supported, heard, and better equipped to manage personal and professional challenges after engaging with WPO China services.

“Chinese work values are centered on collectivism and building a community, hard work, endurance, and honesty,” said Wynne Wee, Vice President, Service Delivery for WPO Asia Pacific. “We observed lower rates of workplace issues in China relating to workplace conflicts as the social support systems and efforts to cooperate as a team tend to be stronger than the global average. However, we do see a higher rate of anxiety and stress that is related to wanting to perform at highly productive, competitive, and competent levels. This then relates to perceived discrepancies between the effort they invest in their work versus the compensation, reward, and recognition received.”

WPO China partners with clients to address mental health stigma so that employees understand why and how to seek help. WPO and one client co-created a live dialogue series on mental health: featuring both WPO professionals and company leaders. The program promoted awareness and encouraged self-care. The campaign doubled EAP utilization year-over-year, proving the power of collaboration and conversation.

Commitment to Security and Innovation

WPO China continues to invest in innovation, technology, and data security, ensuring that every service meets global standards of privacy and performance. The company’s ISO 27001 certification underscores its unwavering commitment to information protection and client trust.

About Workplace Options

At Workplace Options (WPO), our philosophy is built on three core tenants: reach, relevance, and results. We are committed to delivering consistent, high-quality, and easily accessible global services — services that make a meaningful difference in employees’ lives, allowing them to more fully and effectively contribute to their organization’s success.

To help employees and their families when they need emotional, practical, and physical wellbeing support, our services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, delivered from service centers located around the world.

WPO delivers high-quality care digitally and in-person to more than 88 million people representing 113,000 organizations in more than 200 countries and territories.