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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?

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chipotle-mexican-grill-exterior-590How can company's use workplace wellness to help drive internal culture? Corporate Wellness Magazine takes a terrific look at exactly how this worked for Chipotle Mexican Grill.

The piece states: “Chipotle had wanted to build a culture of wellness that matched its menu; that is, a program that everyone would believe in and value. This required an innovative, multi-faceted strategy that would:”

  1. “Increase engagement in the wellness program”
  2. “Create a culture of happy, healthy and highly productive employees”
  3. “Reduce lifestyle risk factors, such as obesity, sedentariness and stress”
  4. “Save on health costs by adopting national trends as the benchmark”

But instead of trying to solve everything at once, Chipotle broke the strategy into three yearly parts:

  • YEAR 1: Employee Education & Awareness
  • YEAR 2: Employee Participation & Engagement
  • YEAR 3: Results-Based Wellness

Further, the piece reports that “Chipotle implemented three best practices:”

  • Visible senior leadership support
  • Creative and meaningful incentive design
  • Effective communications

The results? “In the past three years, Chipotle has dramatically increased wellness program participation:”

  • 333 percent — biometric screening completion
  • 166 percent — assessment completion
  • 62 percent — engagement in programs resulting in earning incentives

Now, “the next three years of this strategic approach are now focused on embedding wellness as an integral element of Chipotle’s culture.”

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