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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.

From an editorial point of view, great ideas can come from anywhere. With that philosophy in mind, we will combine our own original content with other content across the web. We organize the content, with a view to making it as simple and useful as possible.

All content will be sourced. If we found it somewhere, we’ll tell you where we got — and how to get to that site yourself.

We also welcome your comments — criticisms, ideas, and, yes, we take compliments, too! Have a thought of what you’d like to see — or see something you think others should know — drop us a line.

Thanks for visiting – and please come back again!

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One of the key benefits surrounding a well-run workplace wellness program is the role it can play in employee retention.

We previously noted that Rebecca Ellison of the Knox County (TN) Health Department wrote in the Knoxville News Sentinel: “Use wellness to recruit, retain quality employees.”

She added: “Investing in small steps to improve your employees’ health could pay big dividends when you are able to recruit and retain a high-quality, healthy workforce.”

Ellison wrote: “There are many benefits to making wellness a priority at your business. As health care costs continue to rise, many employers are turning to worksite wellness programs to counteract the expenses associated with an unhealthy workforce.”

Previously, Business and Legal Resources noted that “the 2012 Principal Financial Well-Being Index: American Workers found that 45% of employees agree that an employer-sponsored wellness program would encourage them to stay in their current job—compared to 40% the previous year. In addition, 62% of surveyed workers believe that such programs improve health and reduce health risks—compared to 55% the previous year.”

Now Brave Day explains how “corporate wellness programs improve talent attraction and retention.” The post notes that employees realize “that the fight against lifestyle disease such as high stress, obesity and diabetes (to name just a few) isn’t only fought in the kitchen and the gym, but the workplace too.”

In terms of retention, the post notes that “One survey found that half of all professionals employed today said that they would leave their workplace if their wellbeing needs were not met. People want to feel comfortable at work, both mentally and physically; but ironically, the same survey found that the vast majority of hiring managers hugely underestimated how much of a factor wellness could be within their workplace.”

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