When you walk into the lobby of any company, you immediately get a vibe.
Corporate wellness has been growing significantly on a global scale over the past decade. While the drivers differ between regions more and more, employers are implementing programs to improve the hea...
"I have been encouraging my fellow drivers who smoke to quit and I feel good being able to support them."
-Jimmie at Sheetz, Altoona,...
Lower back pain has a significant effect on productivity and healthcare costs in the workplace. The total cost to employers for b...
A quick search for "best diet" brings 3.5 million results on YouTube and 447,000 results on Google. At the top of the Google search,
After women reach the age of forty, they may begin to experience difficulty in maintaining a healthy weight, even if they have not changed anything in their lifestyle or behavior. There are several r...
As wellness programs become more mainstream, and companies decide they want to take on wellness in a serious way, here are some new, innovative and "out of the box" ideas about wellness that can shap...
Approximately half of U.S. employers offer wellness promotion initiatives, and larger employers are more likely to have more complex programs (RAND Health 2013). As employee wellness programs continue...
Of the numerous wellness programs I've evaluated, most usually include one or more of these activities and benefits: weight loss classes or memberships, exercise facilities or memberships, printed hea...
Corporate wellness is a hot topic with healthcare costs rising,
Lili is a well-trained, committed employee who stays late and comes in early, volunteering for extra projects to ensure client satisfaction and company success. But she is often overwhelmed by guilt a...
The root cause of most diseases is inflammation. One proven method to help reduce inflammation is to monitor and have control over what we consume. As 70 percent of our immune system lives in our stom...
More than a decade ago, "dual-use" devices (meaning, one device used for both work and personal reasons) began creeping into workplaces around the globe. Some employees insisted on bringing their fanc...
When Sandy Tracy was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, the last people she felt like talking to about it were her co-workers."I don't like people feeling sorry for me," she said. "I just wan...
Ask any senior manager what are the key attributes they look for in an effective team member, and the chances are reliability and consistency will be up there.But, while most of us manage to be pr...
Have you searched long and hard to find what works for employers and what doesn't or have you moved from one vendor to another to help bend your cost-curve? Look no further.The Corporate Health an...
For the past few years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has flexed its muscle by bringing legal actions to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against employers who sp...
We asked Jason Morgan, director of Global Health and Wellness at GE Healthcare, about the company's wellness program and ROI, creating a culture of wellness, and the role of incentives, gamification a...
Many people may not know that health nonprofits do more than invest research money for cures. The discoveries that come fromresearch include why diseases occur
As bleary-eyed employees line up in break rooms across America for their morning coffee - the magic potion that will jump-start their day -- thoughts often swirl about the poor night's sleep many of t...
Oklahoma State University has started an arms race. Groundbreaking hires, exciting new technology, and dramatic new vision has the campus in an all-out war.This isn't a battle for championships or...
Smoking is a very �personal habit'
Working with employees and their spouses in an employer-sponsored tobacco cessation program is an eye-o...
Businesses looking to reduce healthcare costs might consider eliminating ancillary benefits, such as vision, dental, disability and life insurance. But before doing so, there are compelling reasons to...
Nucor Steel, a Fortune 300 company and the largest manufacturer of recycled steel in the United States, embodies a culture that can be summarized by a decentralized management philosophy, performance-...
Prudential Financial, Inc. is a Fortune Global 500 company dealing primarily with financial services like investing and insurance in the United States and 30 countries across the globe. With more than...
The Employer Healthcare & Benefits Congress has trained and educated thousands of insurance agents and brokers, human resource professionals and related industry interest on the intricacies of ...
The phrase Internet of Things (IoT) - the exponentially growing phenomenon connecting more and more devices to the Internet - is passing the lips of innovators and executives at industries around the ...
Cardone Industries, Inc., founded in 1970, is a leading supplier of automotive replacement parts with 6,000 employees across the United States, Canada and Mexico. A family-owned business, health benef...
When many modern companies discuss corporate wellness, they really mean wearable devices and apps.It's no secret that fitness tracking gadgets - Fitbit, Garmin, Jawbone, and others - or,wearable d...
Wearable devices are quickly becoming a crucial part of many corporate wellness programs. Sale of wearable activity trackers, last year, reached 8 million, a figure predicted to grow to 23 million by ...
The use of electronic information and telecommunications to facilitate clinical healthcare and coordination of care -- also known as telehealth -- has been part of the healthcare landscape for the pas...
Personal wellness and corporate wellness are inseparable: The latter is impossible without the former because, if a company's
Almost every employer understands the benefits of engaging employees in wellness. These benefits include a potential saving of �1600 ($2461.60) per employee per year from the reductions in absenteeism...
A quick search for "best diet" brings 3.5 million results on YouTube and 447,000 results on Google. At the top of the Google search,
Designing and launching incentives for a wellness program can be confusing and overwhelming. This information is provided to give employers an overview of the most common incentive strategies, the ran...
An upbeat, healthy, happy, productive and revenue-generating workforce -- Isn't that what every employer wants? You can't connect smiles on faces to sales, or inches lost to revenue gained, ...
A significant and consistent focus for any organization is reducing costs to improve its financial bottom line. This emphasis on spending can often result in limitations on travel, policies on employe...
It wasn't too long ago that C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general, challenged Americans to "create a smoke-free society in the United States by the year 2000."1 Boeing Co. stepped up...
Obesity is a common condition and is increasing in prevalence in the United States and globally. Obesity is defined as a state of excess adipose tissue and is associated with hypertension, type 2 dia...
There are two ways to forecast the future:
Taking wisdom from no less than author J...
It's 3 pm, and there a giant pile of work on your desk, but you can't think clearly enough to tackle it. Your eyes are getting heavy, your thoughts are jumbled and your keyboard is suddenly looking li...
For those who care about your employees' health, there are two known major risk calculators the ACC/AHA risk calculator and the Framingham risk calculator, unfortunately they may not perform as well a...
Can you picture the world without smartphones? A time when we used payphones on the side of the street or in the store? I can. It's 1990 and you're waiting for an important ph...
The spiraling cost of healthcare faced by our nation has reached more than $2 trillion and its inflationary pressures remain thus far unabated,
The nagging thoughts of all the tasks that have to be done like the emails screaming for attention, the speech points you must prepare for the next company meeting,
Diabetes is a modern scourge, an illness we need to confront – and to whatever extent possible, conquer – so corporate wellness can flourish.
Summer may be a time of weekend trips to the beach and vacations under the sun, a three-month revelry for teens and college students,
As a scientist, and as the author of this piece about the facts concerning skin cancer, I find myself compel...
Nutritionists will be the first to say that healthy workers who eat the right foods are likely to increase their energy levels, improve their immune systems and perform better on the job.Now think...
