ADP offers some "hard-hitting facts that will get you thinking twice about offering wellness as part of your HR benefits." FACT 1: "Changing unhealthy behaviors saves money. Companies that target three major modifiable risk factors by changing individual behaviors can...
"During the last 15 years of delivering wellness solutions to businesses, two things have become very clear," HR Zone notes. 1. The improvements that people would like to make to their wellbeing are usually very simple; the most popular including the desire to get...
"You hear a lot about the use of incentives in workplace health promotion programs, but do they really work? Temple University in Philadelphia is betting that they do," Business and Legal Resources reports. "Temple’s comprehensive, voluntary wellness program provides...
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Million Hearts is a national initiative that was launched by the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. Employers are asked to do the following: EMPOWER your community by supporting activities that help people...
Business and Legal Resources offers four key steps to create an effective wellness program for your company: 1. Obtain support from senior management. Executives are responsible for setting priorities and allocating resources. HR should make the business case for the...
USA Today reports on the outstanding outcomes of the Kings County, Washington wellness plan, which has seen great results "in employee participation, health improvement and health care savings." The program was launched as an effort to bring down "runaway medical...
Do you provide employee wellness training to your employees? Are these sessions well attended? Do they understand the benefits of such training? Business and Legal Resources: "In this video, we provide an animated skit which contains a trainer/HR professional's...
"That little voice nagging you to put down the cake and lace up the running shoes is increasingly coming from your employer — and it’s likely to grow louder with a looming change under the federal health care overhaul," the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports. "More...