Archive for April, 2009
What is a Employee Wellness ?
According to the American Journal of Health Promotion, “Health promotion is the science and art of helping people alter their lifestyle to move toward a state of good health. Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle modification can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to [...]
Boost Company Wellness through Emotional Wellness Techniques
5 Ways to Evaluate and Improve Your employees’ Health
Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and finding appropriate ways to express them. As employees, we frequently bring emotional concerns from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we haven’t dealt with them effectively outside [...]
Employee Wellness Now as Important as Cost and Workforce Issues
25 percent Jump in Employer Interest in Employee Health and Wellness
Job Site wellness for their employees, corporations are discovering, is great for the health of their corporations as well. Employee Wellness help to cut the expenditures associated with poor employee health, which include absenteeism, loss of work rate and poor work quality.
A new Hewitt [...]
Company Wellness: Bottom Line Strategies For Effective Health Care Reform
It is obvious to virtually every American (especially those of us in business) that health care expenditures are skyrocketing out of control. No one doubts that either the market will solve the concern OR the government will impose one on us. Managed care has failed from either a cost containment or quality of care perspective. [...]
Employee Wellness
Research spanning more than a decade has consistently determined Employee Wellness to be monetarily effective and that every dollar invested on a corporate wellness program can return $2.30 and $10.10 by reducing absenteeism, sick day usage and by lowering insurance expenditures. Additionally it is noted that there are marked improvements in employee performance and [...]
Popular Employee Wellness
Some of the top wellness programs currently in use today include:
Health Risk Assessments or HRAs
Health Risk Assessment is a top corporate wellness program currently in use globally. Companies that implement it determine the safety and health concerns of employees by the assessment of appropriateness of the facilities and equipment against the needs of the employees.
It [...]
Has Wellness Been Hijacked?
Wellness is a great concept. It brings happiness into health and encourages a truly holistic approach to life. Wikipedia defines wellness as a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of wellness. It sounds like exactly what every one is looking for. But when you begin to talk about [...]
Investment in Employee Wellness Pays Big Dividends
High rates of employee turnover and the expenditures of sick days are increasingly taking bites into business profits. The high cost of recruitment programs only adds to the challenges that these concerns in total cost the average business. Many corporations are finding the solution to these challenges by increasing job satisfaction, team building, and the [...]
Company Wellness Becomes CEO Delimma – How to Reduce Workplace Health Expenditures
The Partnership for Prevention was formed to encourage Fortune 1000 corporations to consider making workforce health a CEO concern and adopt strategies to promote prevention and wellness. Following several years of double-digit rate increases for medical insurance, corporations are realizing that one of the best ways to slow the cost increases is to have employees [...]
Employee Wellness Ideas: More Wellness Topics and Ideas
A listing of potential wellness topics and ideas not previously mentioned follows. Take some time to “think tank and brainstorm” new ideas with your own internal employee Employee Wellness Committee.
Nutrition Category
• Low-fat campaign/food groups
• Team salad bars
• Vending machine changes
• Diet analysis by a nutritionist
• Produce on parade
• Eating disorder support group
• Restaurant education
Physical Activity/Exercise [...]
