"Like many a Fitbit owner, I spend excessive amounts of time tracking my steps on the Fitbit dashboard. One day, I wandered over to the corporate wellness section of the website, and saw an interesting statistic: Companies with worksite wellness programs experience an...
"Few employees put in extra hours without receiving something -- tangible or otherwise -- in return. Companies strive to create a positive work environment where employees feel valued, but many are finding that increasingly long hours are contributing to employee...
Robert Half writes that, "There are plenty of reasons workplace wellness programs are popular. But what do they look like exactly?" He says most wellness programs take on one of these forms: Screening: "Used to identify health risks, screenings are meant to help...
Dr. Deborah Teplow writes for TLNT that "changing the corporate culture to make health and wellness the social norm is a key factor in achieving an organization’s wellness goals." That means: Establishing policies that help health and wellness flourish. Making healthy...
"The environments we work in is a factor that significantly impact our overall health. At the core is understanding that we can have a direct influence on the environments we spend time in, we don’t have to wait for a wellness program at work to be developed or be...
"Developing and implementing an effective workplace wellness program takes careful planning. By starting with high-level strategies, a business can build a program that's customized to the needs of its employee population," Jennifer Patel writes over at World at Work....
"Have you wanted to quit smoking for years? Or perhaps lose weight? Wellness programs allow you to do so on your employer’s dime, or at least with your employer helping to pave the way with smoking cessation and weight loss counseling, classes and more," Napala...
"Drive by some buildings at 5 p.m. and you'll see people streaming out the doors like the floodgates have burst open and every employee has finally been set free," Dharmesh Shah writes for Huffington Post. "It always makes me wonder: What must it be like to work for...
"Today workers are experiencing a global assault on physical, social, and cognitive wellbeing. Worldwide, rates of heart and lung diseases, as well as diabetes and obesity, are rising sharply," according to Business and Legal Resources. "We are cognitively overloaded...