Archive for March, 2009

 

Job Site Wellness Ideas

Conducting an Employee Fitness Challenge at your workplace is a fun and exciting way to raise awareness among employees about the effect of beginning and sustaining an exercise program. It is a concentrated effort in which to engage them in physical exercise for a specific time period that, hopefully, will help them begin a healthy [...]

Are Employee Wellness Cost-Effective?

Research studies have repeatedly determined that accross the board Employee Wellness , or Employee Wellness , have the potential to lower medical and insurance expenditures, cut down on absenteeism, and improve performance and work rate. Other advantages determined in research studies include improved ability to attract and retain key personnel, greater employee allegiance, and improved [...]

Employee Wellness on a Budget

Free Employee Wellness and Low Cost Health Management Alternatives
Create a free Employee Wellness  or run a successful health management program in the office for little or no cost to your business. The advantages of workplace wellness and learning how to implement a health management program at work are many. The articles on health management [...]

Employee Wellness

Small business wellness programs are catching on. A well-designed wellness program is able to boost work rate, boost morale and vitality, reduce stress, lower absenteeism, and control avoidable health care expenditures within a business. The beauty of it is that you’re simply assisting employees to make smart choices so the expenditures of implementing a wellness [...]

Workplace Health and Wellness

Create a Company Employee Wellness for Your Workers Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellness program are abounding.
A few corporate health and wellness tips to get employees started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before launching an Employee Wellness . How many [...]

Employee Wellness : The Numbers

Introduction to Employee Wellness
The last ten years has brought primary changes in business attitudes toward Employee Wellness . Interest in self-help and self-care programs has increased as growth in medical expenditures have encroached substantially into profits. Changes in the business structures of medical facilities, in particular the growth of the for-profit medical sector, and [...]

Employee Wellness

Company Physical Activity Programs Plans Improve Employee Health and Wellness
Instituting a Employee Wellness  improves the health of employees, decreases employee absenteeism and saves the business money, too. Learn more about starting an Employee Wellness  in the office.
Benefits of Employee Wellness
• A business investment of $100-$150 per employee each year to participate in an Employee [...]

Creating a Employee Wellness

Five reasons to have a wellness program
1.    The United States spends more dollars on medical than any other country yet we are not the world’s healthiest
• Largely sedentary
• Tobacco use is still popular
• Stress is at epidemic levels (WHO)
• Alcohol continues to take its toll on American citizens
2.    Much of the illness in The United [...]

Employee Wellness : What is the Return on Investment?

Many employers, as part of their efforts to contain rising medical expenditures, are implementing worksite programs variously described as Employee Wellness , lifestyle programs, health and work rate management, population health management and, simply, wellness programs.
The purpose of this article is to consider whether such programs improve health. If so, do they in turn lower [...]

Establishing a Employee Wellness Strategy for Fitness and Health

As corporations today continue to compete in the global economy, expense containment strategies will be increasingly significant. Controlling the rising expense of employee sickness is becoming a priority for corporate leaders. The emerging corporate culture in the U.S. is one which has an employee population centered in health, safety and wellness.
Establishing a corporate strategy for [...]