Wellness programs are designed to help both white-collar and blue-collar workers improve health. Blue-collar workers have many barriers to health not shared by white-collar workers so only the best wellness program ideas for blue-collar workers will get results. The term…
WellSteps would love to be your workplace health (wellness) vendor, but if not, we want to make sure you still choose a good one. When you pick a good wellness vendor, your employees will love it and your leadership will…
When you design company wellness programs there are two basic options: use an outside vendor or develop your program internally. Regardless of the option you choose, there are several steps you need to take to have a successful program. How…
How One Broker Got Lower Insurance Rates Playing the Wellness Card This is a story about a real brokerage firm that made the decision to embrace wellness. It started with the question, "Why offer a wellness program?" and what happened as a…
To have any effect on the bottom line, employee health and wellness programs need to be able to improve employee health behaviors. Without improvements in nutrition, physical activity, controlling stress, and other health behaviors, most of the chronic diseases employees…
The health and chronic disease prevention centers of America are now America's worksites. There's not a single group in America that does more to promote health and improve the health behaviors of our population than worksites. This presents a challenge…
Want to know how to transform your employee wellness program into an engagement machine? Here's a few employee wellness program ideas and tips that may take your program to the next level. Do you know why only 11% of Californians…
Health coach companies work with wellness programs. Of all the activities that happen within a wellness program, health coaching is the most expensive. Any time employees spend considerable time one-on-one with a health professional there will be a cost. Since it…
What is Health and Wellness Software? Wellness programs can use web-based tools to help organize and administer a wellness program. These web-based computer systems are considered health and wellness software. Historically a corporate wellness program had been nothing more than a…
Employee wellness programs can use a variety of strategies to help improve employee health. Here are 50 employee wellness program examples for physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco cessation that have been used by hundreds of worksites. Not every example may…
