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New York, NY, March 3, 2022 — LEON, the leading well-being and performance management tool, and Tuned, the first proactive hearing health platform, today announced a strategic alliance. The alliance opens access to proactive hearing wellness, hearing health care, and advanced headsets to all users of LEON.

With hybrid and remote work environments increasing the time spent on video calls, hearing health is becoming a critical part of employee benefits. Studies show that the average adult now uses a headset for up to 7 hours per day, and 1 in 4 working-age individuals have tinnitus. Traditional employer health insurance plans do not offer hearing wellness coverage. Tuned is the first and only option for proactive hearing health benefits.

“We know that continuing to ignore hearing wellness has hard dollar impacts on both employers and employees. Each employee with untreated hearing issues creates over $2000 per year in higher healthcare costs for their employer. Multiple studies have shown impacts to workplace performance and decreased earning power for these same employees. In a workplace that is now saturated with video calls, the impacts of ignoring hearing health will only compound. The LEON team has demonstrated that they can improve team performance through support for health, and systemic changes. We are proud to partner with them on this shared goal, and offer access to this kind of hearing health,” said Kate McGinley, Tuned Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer.

Bryan Smith, COO and Founder of LEON added, “For too long, we’ve looked at employee wellness in the scope of kombucha on tap and gym perks when in reality, true health is holistic and personal. Our partnership with Tuned has opened the door for our employee members to experience a vital and much-needed aspect of health for the distributed teams of today: proactive hearing health.”

Both employees and team leaders using the LEON platform can now access Tuned’s hearing-related playbooks, hearing screener, Tuned’s specialist audiologists, and Tuned’s product marketplace. Playbooks include:

  • Cutting Zoom Fatigue and Listening Fatigue
  • Sonic Support for Neurodiverse Team Members
  • Hearing Health for Heavy Headset Users

LEON and Tuned plan to expand the partnership over time.

About LEON

LEON is a Wellness Intelligence platform that helps managers asynchronously improve employee well-being and performance through AI-driven Playbooks performance recommendations, education, and metrics. For more information visit www.myleon.co/

About TUNED

Tuned changes the model for hearing healthcare: from a reactive, hearing-aids focused approach, to a proactive approach that includes wellcare and early interventions. Tuned empowers employers to deliver inclusive hearing health care to employees, across all hearing abilities. Tuned supports the care with comprehensive product options to support hearing health, freeing employers from the need to evaluate thousands of headset and software combinations. Today, 1.4 million people can access Tuned through employer benefits and services such as LEON. Tuned is a private company headquartered in New York City, with audiologists across the United States and worldwide. For more information www.tunedcare.com