Archive for June, 2009
Employer Wellness : Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learn Programs
Wellness Seminars / Lunch and Learn Programs are learning sessions planned and organized by you to meet specific objectives. Come up with a topic and select a speaker. Choose a site for the “Lunch and Learn” session, usually a lunchroom or break room. Depending upon your budget and objectives, workers have the potential to brown [...]
Employer Wellness : Job Site Wellness Ideas
Conducting an Employee Fitness Challenge at your workplace is a fun and exciting way to raise awareness among employees about the significance of beginning and sustaining an physical activity program. It is a concentrated effort in which to engage them in physical exercise for a specific time period that, hopefully, will help them start a [...]
Employer Wellness : Are Worksite Wellness Programs Cost-Effective?
Research studies have repeatedly shown that inclusive Company Health Promotion Programs, or Company Health Promotion Programs, are able to cut medical care and insurance costs, lower absenteeism, and improve effectiveness and productiveness. Other advantages shown in research studies include improved ability to attract and retain key personnel, greater employee allegiance, and improved public image of [...]
Employer Wellness : Employee Health Promotion Programs on a Budget
Free Company Health Promotion Programs and Low Cost Health Management Alternatives
Establish a free Worksite Health Promotion Program or run a efficacious health management program in the workplace for little or no cost to your corporation. The advantages of workplace wellness and learning how to start a health management program at work are numerous. The articles [...]
Employer Wellness : Company Wellness Programs
Small employer wellness programs are catching on. A well-designed wellness program has the potential to stimulate work rate, boost morale and vitality, reduce stress, cut absenteeism, and control avoidable healthcare expenditures within a employer. The beauty of it is that you’re simply helping workers to make smart choices so the expenditures of implementing a wellness [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Health and Wellness
Develop a Business Corporate Wellness Program for Your Employees Today
The advantages to starting a workplace health and wellness program are abounding.
A few corporate health & wellness tips to get employees started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
1. Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before initiating an Corporate Wellness Program. How [...]
Employer Wellness : Worksite Wellness Programs: The Facts
Introduction to Employee Health Promotion Programs
The last ten years has brought major changes in company attitudes toward Corporate Health Promotion Programs. Interest in self-help and self-care programs has increased as growth in medical costs have encroached substantially into profits. Changes in the company structures of medical facilities, in particular the growth of the for-profit medical [...]
Employer Wellness : Workplace Wellness Programs
Business Fitness Programs Plans Improve Employee Health and Wellness
Instituting a Corporate Wellness Program improves the health of employees, decreases employee absenteeism and saves the business money, too. Learn more about starting an Corporate Wellness Program in the office.
Benefits of Worksite Wellness Programs
• A corporation investment of $100-$150 per employee each year to take part in [...]
Employer Wellness : Building a Corporate Health Promotion Program
Five reasons to have a wellness program
1. The U.S. spends more dollars on healthcare than any other country yet we are not the world’s healthiest
• Largely sedentary
• Tobacco use is still popular
• Stress is at epidemic levels (WHO)
• Alcohol continues to take its toll on American citizens
2. Much of the illness in The United States is avoidable
• [...]
Employer Wellness : Employee Wellness Programs: What is the Return on Investment?
Many employers, as part of their efforts to contain rising medical care costs, are implementing workplace programs variously described as Worksite Wellness Programs, lifestyle programs, health and productiveness management, population health management and, simply, wellness programs.
The purpose of this article is to consider whether such programs improve health. If so, do they in turn decrease [...]