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9 Innovations that Suggest the Healthcare Revolution is Here

The healthcare industry is going through a metamorphosis owing to the latest technological innovations. Today, many organizations are making significant investments in advanced processes and technolog...

Business of Well-being

An Invisible Enemy with Visible Effects: Electromagnetic Fields

By promoting mobility and making wellness a priority, companies may in fact be worsening the health of their workers by giving them-and encouraging them to use-mobile devices. This is not an example o...

Fitness & Nutrition

Taking a Breath to Breathe Easily: A Harmless Way to End Smoking

The straightest passage is not always the simplest path to wellness. Nowhere is that assertion more obvious, and obviously more difficult than most imagine, regarding the attempt to quit cigarette smo...

Business of Well-being

How to Set Up a Healthy Workstation

Previously here on Corporate Wellness Magazine, we discussed how prolonged sitting can lead ...

Business of Well-being

Help your Organization Avert Risk with Succession Planning

Goodbyes can be bittersweet, especially when having to bid farewell to exceptional workers. If the departure is unexpected - well, that is even worse - often creating operational confusion, especially...

Business of Well-being

Effective Hiring Tips for Choosing the Right Candidate

Countless young people are joining the workforce nowadays after years and years of superior education. This has produced a generation of ambitious individuals that could be great assets for any busine...

Business of Well-being

Symbols of Health and Icons of Corporate Wellness

Since corporate wellness is a catchall for so many things, the challenge rests not with expressing each idea but encapsulating all relevant ideas in a powerful way. Doing so is more about visual comma...

Business of Well-being

Practice, Program, Policy: A step-wise approach to foster wellbeing at work

Creating a culture of well-being within an organization is a big job and takes time, money and support. Recently, I was introduced to a new concept from the not-for-profit world, "Pledge the Practice,...

Business of Well-being

Visual Acuity: About an Acute Threat to Vision

Eyestrain is a strain on wellness in general and corporate wellness in particular. How we work, continually in front of screens--from computers to phones to tablets--is cause for concern. One such con...

Mental & Behavioral Health

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve Your Mental Health

When it comes to taking care of ourselves, we often focus solely on our physical body. However, maintaining your mind is just as important. According to

Mental & Behavioral Health

Calmness of Mind and Wellness of Body

Having a job is a great way to combat financial stresses and keep your life afloat. But going to the office every day for 8 hours at a time can add unexpected stress to your life. A benefit and curse ...

Business of Well-being

The Legal Case for Corporate Wellness

Lawyers who champion corporate wellness are champions in their own right. They give companies a reason, which is more a matter of moral justice than a mandate from our judicial system, to create-and p...

Business of Well-being

Innovating Low Back Pain Management in the Workplace

American workers are no stranger to low back pain (LBP). Over 80 percent of Americans experience at least one episode of LBP over th...

Mental & Behavioral Health

Building Resiliency in the Workplace Enhances Health and Wellbeing

We all experience stress in our daily lives. From raising families and managing finances to juggling schedules and caring for loved ones. And that's all before we set foot into the office in the morni...

Business of Well-being

How Corporate Social Responsibility Connects Us to Consumers

Long gone are the days of disengaged consumers, whose allegiance is garnered merely through coupons and loyalty programs. Today's customers are increasingly sophisticated and selective. They like to k...

Business of Well-being

Leaders, Employee Well-Being Starts with You

Whether your company is considering wellness initiatives or has a solid program already in motion, the most important thing you can do for your employees' well-being is to focus on your organization's...

Business of Well-being

Energy Medicine: Managing Your Energetic Environment to Master Your Life

Science is showing us that everything is energy - including you! Everything in the universe is comprised of energy vibrating at different frequencies. This energy manifests from subtle, unse...

Business of Well-being

How healthcare literacy can save your life

If you know someone or have personal experience being in a healthcare treatment ecosystem you have most likely experienced the confusing, helpless feeling of being shifted between offices, trying to s...

Business of Well-being

The Cost of Employee Fitness: Do Financial Incentives Make Cents?

Physical activity is associated with improved health and can help mitigate or delay the onset of many diseases, including types of cancer, coronary artery disease, high cholesterol, hypertension, and ...

Business of Well-being

Interview with a Wellness Manager, Sapoznik Insurance

The Corporate Health & Wellness Association recently sat down with Rodica Charles who is the wellness manager at Sapoznik Insurance. She has shared her philoso...

Mental & Behavioral Health

Sleep: An Important Concern for Health and Productivity at Work

The effects of sleep on health and productivity are often underestimated, yet sleep deprivation remains a substantial risk factor for decreased workplace productivity, work errors, as well as occupati...

Fitness & Nutrition

Strategies to Tackle Workplace Tobacco Use

Tobacco use is a public health problem worldwide, being a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease and cancer which are the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the Centers for Di...

Fitness & Nutrition

One Elementary School is Changing Where Wellness Starts: Allamanda "Healthyville"

In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, one elementary school is paving the way for the future of health and wellness in school districts across the nation.

Fitness & Nutrition

One Elementary School is Changing Where Wellness Starts: Allamanda "Healthyville"

In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, one elementary school is paving the way for the future of health and wellness in school districts across the nation.

Business of Well-being

Why Companies Are Embracing Corporate Mindfulness

Let's face it. We want the best for both our company and our employees.Our employees are truly the essence of what makes a company thrive. Sure, strategic management, business practices, and innov�

Disease & Genomics

Setting the Record Straight - Genomic VS Genetic Test Results

Genoma International is pleased to present a series of four articles for corporate executives, medical and HR directors who are considering or interested in providing genomic testing to your employees�

Business of Well-being

Seven Tips for Promoting a Healthy Spring

Believe it or not, it's already the month of May! Now's the time to get moving as we transition seasons. Here are seven hints to help you "spring into wellness" and the activities of summer.

Business of Well-being

Complying with the EEOC's Mental Health Requirements in the Workplace

Until recently, mental and behavioral health has been a societal stigma, especially in the workplace. However, it is becoming increasingly hard to overlook when charges of discrimination based on ment�

Mental & Behavioral Health

Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy: The Paradigm Shift That Can Change Our Mental Reality

Imagine curing severe social anxiety, PTSD, or even agoraphobia not with medication or traditional psychotherapy-but with something as simple as a video game. Sounds crazy, right?Think again! It's�

Business of Well-being

Why Small Businesses Should Offer Voluntary Benefits

Small business owners are continually faced with the perennial question of how to stay competitive with their larger counterparts. In every aspect of running a business, from pricing, to quality, to d�

Mental & Behavioral Health

Crystal Alchemy Sound Healing

Sound Healing has become a mainstream 'buzzword' as more people experience the benefits of the use of frequency and vibration in their search for wellness. As our lifestyles continue on the fast track�

Business of Well-being

Office Design and its Impact on Employee Health and Productivity

Workers spend much of their time in the workplace, typing out memos and documents on the computer, analyzing data, attending meetings, and speaking with clients. How the office space is designed has a�

Business of Well-being

April's Move More Month: How to Hit Your Stride

As winter gives way to spring, some of us may be emerging from a state of "seasonal sedentary syndrome." With National Walking Day (April 4) and April's Move More Month, it's time to lace-up those sne�

Business of Well-being

Putting Wellness Training to Work - A Case Study with Sapoznik

The connection between healthy employees and company performance have long been a factor for employers to seek well-being programs for their employees. There are some that have intrinsically woven the�

Business of Well-being

A Noisy Workplace Raises Risk of Heart Disease

Nobel Prize Winner Robert Koch said in 1910 that "One day man will have to fight noise as fiercely as cholera and pest" and studies are beginning to prove this statement right.A study recently rel�

Mental & Behavioral Health

Workplace Mental Wellness and Intrapersonal Skills: A Case for a Proactive Approach

The current misconception is that mental health and mental illness is the same thing, this needs to be addressed. In order to have good mental health, we need to perform activities that support mental�

Business of Well-being

Proactive Ways Employers Can Address the Opioid Crisis in the Workplace

If you think our nation's opioid epidemic could never affect your workplace, think again.More than 70 percent of U.S. employers report feeling a direct impact of prescription drug misuse in their �

Business of Well-being

Is Certification the New University?

A career in corporate health and wellness is fast becoming attractive and vital in corporate health. Currently, students taking up courses in health and wellbeing have found that such certificates ear.

Business of Well-being

A Key Component of Corporate Wellness Programs: Food Wellness

Workplace could, sometimes, be a difficult place to really eat well, as employees are in a constant hurry to meet deadlines, engage new clients, send out emails, secure contracts, and send off proposa�

Business of Well-being

What's Ahead in Wellness for 2018? Last Year's Trends Offer Some Answers

To get a sense of what to expect on the employee health and wellness front in 2018, it's useful to look back on the trends that were gaining momentum last year. To better understand those trends, Optu�

Mental & Behavioral Health

Meditation and Mindfulness for Better Overall Health

By Danielle Keenan, Health Management Specialist, KeenanFirst of all, what's the difference between mindfulness and meditation? They're closely related but slightly different. Meditation �

Business of Well-being

AARP Vetoes the DOLs Proposal on Association Health Plans

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), in a letter to the secretary of the US Department of Labor, has slammed the proposed rule by the Department of Labor to allow more small businesses �

Disease & Genomics

Culinary Genomics: Conversing with Your Genes

Here is a little-known fun fact: the food we consume at each meal "talks" with our genes.Yes, as improbable as it seems-a vibrant "conversation" occurs every time you eat or drink. While it has �

Technology & Wearables

Can Tech Help Manage Mental Health in the Workplace?

A human being is only as healthy as his or her mind is, and mental illness is a rather silent, slowly developing health problem that significantly reduces employee health and productivity. Employers a�

Business of Well-being

Nonsolicitation Agreements: A Limit to Employee Post-Employment Interactions

Social media has become not only an avenue for communication and meeting new contacts but also a marketplace where employers meet customers and prospective employees.It is common for an employee w�

Business of Well-being

Getting to the Heart of Employee Wellness and Health

February is the American Heart Month or the heart health awareness month, sponsored by the American Heart Associatio�

Business of Well-being

How to implement technology into your employee wellness plan

Corporate wellness programs are growing steadily, and many companies are betting they will keep their costs under control. But how employers utilize technology to fit their workforces' needs is a crit�

Business of Well-being

What Should Employers do About Healthcare?

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), how can an employer avoid the twin problems of the Cadillac Tax and ever-increasing healthcare costs?The Cadillac tax has been delayed fro�

Business of Well-being

Take Control of Healthcare - Open a Worksite Clinic!

With healthcare costs continuing to increase while quality, access, and satisfaction with the health system declines, many employers have decided to optimize their benefit dollars by offering an onsit�

Business of Well-being

Moving Beyond The Benefits Basics

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), medical debts account for 52 percent of debt collections actions that appear on consumer credit reports.<�

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