A while back, my neighbor asked me to look at his car that was spewing white smoke. He asked, "Do you know what what the problem is?" You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that white smoke coming…
Can Wellness Programs Improve Productivity? Poor employee productivity can be defined as physically being at work but not working. This type of poor productivity is called presenteeism. It is estimated that the cost associated with presenteeism due to poor employee…
Here's a quick peek at the reasons why school wellness programs are a smart school strategy. There are 3.7 million people who work in schools. Schools are the single largest employer in the United States. Even the federal government only…
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…
How Do You Choose the Right Biometric Screening Company? WellSteps does comprehensive wellness programming but we do not conduct biometric screenings. For the several years we have helped our clients find and work with companies that do conduct screenings. This…
During the past few months the WellSteps team has created the most comprehensive list of workplace wellness programs ever produced. This is the complete list of companies that offer comprehensive wellness solutions. Health coaching companies, biometric screening vendors, corporate fitness…
Without wellness program participation from employees it's impossible to have successful wellness outcomes. An indicator of a successful program is really good wellness program participation. This success can help justify the cost and work involved in having a wellness program…
How to Build Workplace Wellness Campaigns At the core of every effective worksite wellness program are wellness activities that help employees adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. These activities are also known as wellness campaigns or wellness challenges. Behavior change campaigns usually…
Workplace wellness programs appear to have a massive financial benefit that has just been discovered. Publicly traded companies that have award winning wellness programs out-perform the stock market by a huge margin. Three recent studies, demonstrate that publicly traded companies…
To offer an effective wellness program companies need to provide 3 things: staff that is qualified to plan and administer the programeffective behavior change interventions and activitiesa web-based data platform on which to administer, communicate, and evaluate the program. Few companies…
