Worksite Wellness Programs: Incentive and Rewards

Worksite Wellness Programs – Employee Engagement Strategies
Worksite Wellness Programs without employee engagement are of little use to a business. How do you get staff members to enroll in Worksite Wellness Programs – and stay engaged in the programs?
The handouts for these programs discuss the benefits to staff members and companies. Worksite Wellness Program statistics show [...]

Good Worksite Wellness Programs: Individual Wellness

Wellness might be the fatal flaw in your Worksite Wellness Program. Is Wellness part of your strategy? Does worksite wellness stop when your staff members leave the office?
Wellness Continuity
If staff members don’t have the tools to pursue health and wellness on a Individual level, then it becomes easy for them to “fall off the wagon” [...]

Worksite Wellness Programs: Keeping the Resolution

Worksite Wellness Programs: An Attainable Goal
Was Wellness on your corporation’s new year’s resolutions list? Here we are a little over midway into the third month of 2008, the time when resolutions start to falter if they haven’t lost momentum completely. Has your Worksite’s wellness resolution fallen by the wayside? If so, there are still ways [...]

Worksite Wellness Programs Discussed at World Health Assembly

The 61st annual World Health Assembly is taking place this week in Geneva, Switzerland and at this assembly; the World Health Organization (WHO) is presenting its report titled “Preventing Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) in the Workplace through Diet and Physical Activity.”
The report calls for Worksite Wellness Programs to be promoted and implemented worldwide.
Importance of Worksite Wellness [...]

Worksite Wellness Programs in a Down Economy

Worksite Wellness Programs and Healthcare Costs
Worksite Wellness Programs are more important now than ever. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, with the troubles in the economy it seems that the costs of organization offered health care keep continuing to grow and it doesn’t seem like it is going to change. [...]

Worksite Wellness Programs Result in a Healthier Bottom-lines

Worksite Wellness Programs are a fantastic investment, at least according to Lincoln industries in Nebraska. CNN reported on this 565 employee business their committed investment in their worker’s wellness.
Worksite Wellness Programs are part of business Culture
The Worksite Wellness Programs, according the story, has been in place for 16 years at Lincoln, and it doesn’t [...]

Benefits of Worksite Wellness Programs

Worksite Wellness Programs Are Becoming Increasingly Popular
Worksite Wellness Programs are Are Becoming Increasingly popular outside the worksite, showing the ever-increasing importance of disease prevention and health risk management. Private insurance businesses, as well as state Medicaid and Medicare offices are working on ways to improve the health of the people they insure in hopes [...]

Worksite Wellness Programs for Small Businesses

Studies suggest that for every $1 invested in Worksite Wellness Programs, a business saves $3 to $5 in health and safety costs. Businesses that invest in Worksite Wellness Programs reap the financial rewards through savings on health care costs, disability pay, absenteeism, turnover and safety problems.
worksites have already proven to be a great place to [...]

Evaluation of Worksite Wellness Programs

It is important to evaluate the effectiveness of all Worksite Wellness Programs. There are several very simple ways to evaluate Worksite Wellness Programs:
How many attended the corporate health and Worksite Wellness Program, and was there participation or a visible level of interest?
Use a short and simple pen and paper evaluation that people fill out [...]

Worksite Wellness Programs Improve Retention

Employee retention is a challenge. Worksite Wellness Programs can help. providing perks such as incentives to exercise, healthy food, and stress management and weight loss programs at work is a way to maintain your workers satisfied.
Attracting new staff members are also a challenge, and anything you can do to “stand out” from other workers is [...]