LAS VEGAS — When the stock market crashed in 2008, Tim O’Neil, executive director of employee benefits and wellness at Meredith, decided it was time to beef up the company’s financial wellness benefits. At the time the media company — which owns brands including People and Better Homes & Gardens — already offered a wellness program, but wanted to improve other aspects of worker well-being.
“Our chairman came to me and said ‘We need to do more to help our employees get their financial house in order.’ That was the launch of our financial wellness program,” O’Neil said Wednesday, speaking at SourceMedia’s Benefits Forum and Expo.
