Wellness apps becoming more interconnected
As the tools meet employees where they are, advisers must serve as vendor managers.
Wellness programs
Wellness apps becoming more interconnected
As the tools meet employees where they are, advisers must serve as vendor managers.
Benefits Think How to prepare your workforce for flu season
Employers should work to prevent the spread of illness in the office by offering shots at on-site locations and dispelling common misconceptions about the vaccine.
Reed Erickson
MedExpress
In review: EBA 2017 Advisers of the Year
The retirement, technology, voluntary, wellness and overall winners are taking charge of the future of benefits.
In review: Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising
30 leaders whose unique client management strategies, innovative data manipulation and other industry-leading skills are transforming the field
Adviser designs customized voluntary benefits to integrate well-being
One product created by OneDigital’s Josh Roland is so popular with a hospital system that it has extended the offering to other area businesses.
Mindfulness training proves successful for brokerage EBS
When a client embraced the initiative, it changed that company’s well-being plan, explains 2017 Wellness Adviser of the Year Valeria Tivnan. TIVNAN: We had the manufacturing company as a client and we decided to do a mindfulness training which the manufacturing workers would learn how to meditate and that was a crazy idea. I thought, […]
Benefits Think How employers are transforming wellness
Firms such as Delta Air Lines, LinkedIn and Walmart are broadening their focus from physical health to multiple dimensions of well-being; and demonstrating that its value far exceeds healthcare cost savings alone.
Pamela Rich
National Business Group on Health
What to consider when redesigning a benefits program
Firms seeking high engagement in health plans should look at programs in their entirety and gauge the opinion of employees.
EBS Insurance Brokers overcomes common wellness program challenges
Creating an impactful plan starts with a strong culture of health, says 2017 Wellness Adviser of the Year Valeria Tivnan. TIVNAN: Work with clients in which — first of all they have no budget whatsoever and it gets limited. You can still do wellness with very limited or no budget, but it gets very restrictive, […]
Benefits Think 5 ways digital tools can help build a better benefits package
HR apps and wellness software make it easy to collect employee health information in one place, regularly update information and track goals.
Anna Mittag
LifeSpeak
Benefits Think 5 ways digital tools can help build a better benefits package
HR apps and wellness software make it easy to collect employee health information in one place, regularly update information and track goals.
Anna Mittag
LifeSpeak
What to consider when redesigning a benefits program
Firms seeking high engagement in health plans should look at programs in their entirety and gauge the opinion of employees.
Employers can ‘do better’ with wellness
Programs shouldn’t rely on incentives, says Limeade’s chief people officer.
Limeade’s wellness ROI measure shifts focus to wellbeing
The holistic approach examines metrics in five areas: participation, engagement, satisfaction, turnover and achievement.
Employee wellness program privacy, costs under fire at Senate hearing
Workers who don’t share sensitive health information face financial penalties that are too extreme, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the HELP committee session.
5 tips for starting or refining a wellness program
Employers should offer incentives to get employees to participate, create a healthy culture at work and properly communicate offerings to workers, among other guidelines.
Phoebe Putney Health System lets data drive wellness
The Georgia-based health network decreased year-over-year spend by 15.3% while also lowering healthcare costs paid by employees.
5 tips for starting or refining a wellness program
Employers should offer incentives to get employees to participate, create a healthy culture at work and properly communicate offerings to workers, among other guidelines.
5 simple ways to engage employees in wellness
Employers can motivate their workers to exercise with team competitions, discounted gym memberships and health-focused rewards.
