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Workplace Wellness Lab delivers leading insights, ideas and information on wellness, health management, and healthy living.

Our goal is simple: Workplace Wellness Lab provides regular and better information as an important path to create healthy individual outcomes, while helping change health care in America.

By connecting the audiences that matter – consultants, corporate executives, policymakers, thought leaders, journalists, customers, and more – we establish a positive, substantive, and influential voice within the wellness industry that makes the case that:

    • Left unchecked, current trends in health spend and outcomes are unsustainable.
    • Given that half the healthcare dollars in this country are incurred by employers, well-executed preventive care health management programs in the worksite are clearly enduring and valuable, helping drive improved workplace environments and individual outcomes.
    • Industry coherence around private sector innovation to drive effective health management programs is economically vital, given what’s possible in a spend category that is arguably one of the greatest challenges in America today.

Workplace Wellness Lab comes at this challenge principally from the employer point of view: What are the credible and demonstrated best practices in preventive care to structure programs that have an enduring impact? How can the impact be made explicit, as something that is both the right thing to do and a proactive business initiative that lowers the cost of care, as experienced by both employers and employees?

And Workplace Wellness Lab goes beyond the workplace. It’s a robust platform filled with ideas and insights from those that influence how employers think about this opportunity: research organizations, non-profits, think tanks and more.

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image-workplaceThe next time your boss says your fitness plays no role in an evaluation of your productivity, you might not want to believe it.

A new study by the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) concludes that “more than 90 percent of surveyed business leaders said health has a very significant or significant influence on productivity and performance.”

According to the full report, key findings include:

  • “Most leaders view productivity and performance as related but different concepts that contribute equally to meeting organizational business objectives.”
  • “Survey results confirm that business leaders recognize health as a significant contributor to productivity and performance and that health is more likely to be viewed as an investment in human capital than it is a health care cost containment strategy.”
  • “Most business leaders indicate their organization’s leaders are committed to improving the health of their workforce, but middle managers are less likely to recognize this commitment than more senior business leaders.”

Said Jessica Grossmeier, vice president of research, HERO: “For several years now, we have seen companies of all sizes increasing their investment in employee health through workplace health management programs. While this movement is most commonly connected to a desire to control health care costs, our interactions with employers led us to believe that there was more at play here and that employers were realizing greater, long-term value from good employee health. This survey opens the door to a dialog with business leaders that could influence the future of workplace wellness.”

An important potential outcome from the research is helping leaders see new ways to value workplace wellness plans. As the report states: “Many times senior business leaders turn to workforce health initiatives in an effort to control health care costs. While there is research evidence to support this positioning, there is also evidence supporting a broader value proposition such as increased productivity and performance, higher engagement and morale, and lower turnover rates.”

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