"Working in suburbia comes with sedentary drawbacks. There is the long drive to work, followed by sitting at a desk for hours, then plopping down in a car again for the ride home," the Wall Street Journal reports. "Now a suburban office park in Whippany, N.J., about...
"In order to avoid costly litigation, employers need to carefully design their wellness program — especially when they reward participants with incentives and discounts on their medical coverage. The EEOC recently sued a Wisconsin employer, claiming the penalty the...
"From smartphone apps that tell you how healthy your food is to wristbands that track your activity and sleeping patterns, technology is increasingly making living healthier easier. With the importance of employee health emphasized, one trend is quickly catching on...
"Wellness has become a key driver of corporate strategy for many organizations, yielding increased productivity and business performance," writes Interactive Health CEO Cathy Kenworthy for Employee Benefits News. "Organizations are recognizing that improving the...
"Large U.S. companies are chafing at federal requirements they say limit the effectiveness of their employee wellness programs," the Wall Street Journal reports. "Under Affordable Care Act rules released last year, employers can offer programs that reward or penalize...
"If, after sitting for hours in a stuffy, crowded meeting room or classroom, you've found yourself thinking a little more slowly than usual, it may not have been your imagination," Vox reports. "An emerging body of research is indicating that the high levels of carbon...
The CDC released a new report that looks "at how states across the country support physical activity, revealing one in four people across the U.S. admit doing no voluntary exercise at all," Time reports. "The research is intended to show how some states are much more...
A new analysis of 12 previous studies in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine finds that "people who work night shifts, or constantly changing shifts are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to non-shift workers," Reuters reports. "Shift...
"NASA conducted a study showing that people who make exercise a habit are consistently more productive after seven hours of work than those that don't," Inc. Magazine reports. Why? Because you'll have the following: Better Executive Function: "This skill set allows...