Mountains of Evidence Show the Benefits of Workplace Health Promotion Programs Think of the different benefits employers typically offer. These could include a retirement or pension plan, healthcare, paid time off, or maternity leave. These are designed to help your…
The best wellness programs have a worksite wellness app. Here are 10 ways a worksite wellness app can make your program shine.
Every effective wellness program should be using incentives. They are an important part in helping employees stay motivated to make long-term behavior change. But sometimes wellness incentive programs become THE wellness program. The wellness program management, or the tracking, awarding,…
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 lower health care costs, promote health improve the health behaviors of our population than worksites. Our…
Wellness program incentives help employees adopt and maintain healthy behaviors for the rest of their lives. Chronic diseases, elevated health risks, and many employee-related expenses are driven by unhealthy behaviors. Ask yourself these questions: Why do I exercise regularly? …
What is a Worksite Wellness Committee? A worksite wellness committee is a small group of employees who lead and participate in an employee wellness program. These committees provide leadership and oversight to help make the wellness programs effective. A worksite…
To offer an effective white label wellness program companies need to provide 3 things: Personnel that are qualified to plan and administer the program, Effective behavior change interventions or activities A web-based data platform to administer, communicate, and evaluate the…
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 health is at least 2…
How to do Biometric Screening in Worksite Wellbeing Programs To better understand the importance of biometric screenings, I'll tell you a short story. A while back my neighbor asked, "Will you look at my car? It is spewing white smoke." He…
Throughout the past year WellSteps has been involved in the wellness vendor selection process in work sites in every state. We’ve kept track of corporate wellness companies that provide comprehensive corporate wellness programs. There are more wellness providers in this…
