Boise School District Receives The C. Everett Koop National Health Award as the Best Wellness Program in America WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/There is wide variability in the quality of workplace wellness efforts and not every health promotion program delivers…
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…
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…
Corporate health and wellness programs are more popular than ever. We say they fail when they fall short of accomplishing their goals and objectives. Failure can be defined in many different ways. For example, a corporate health and wellness program could…
Large corporations have been doing wellness programs in the workplace for decades. Small and medium-sized companies have started to offer wellness programs. The most recent RAND Employer Survey reveals how roughly half of small and medium sized companies still do not…
This blog discusses some more popular corporate wellness ideas and wellness activities that can make your program better—if you are strategic about how you do them. Each must be communicated effectively, tracked, and incentivised. Wellness ideas by themselves are just perks.…
To be effective, when you start health contingent wellness programs, you should do two things well. First, the program should help improve the health of all employees, especially those with elevated health risks. Second, the program should help the healthy…
In 2011, the first research paper that demonstrated how small business wellness can impact the health of employees was published. The wellness program offered at Lincoln Industries was evaluated for three years. During that time, employees were able to significantly reduce systolic blood…
The wellness programs that have the best return on investment tend to exist in organizations with supportive leadership. What senior leaders do at our places of work is an important factor in our behavior. Here are some case studies and…
What is a Wellness Platform? Wellness programs can use web-based tools to help organize and administer a wellness program. These web-based computer systems are called wellness platforms. Historically a corporate wellness program had been nothing more than a website with health…
