How online counseling is reshaping company wellness plans
Thanks to apps that promote confidentiality, employees can log in to discuss their emotional challenges with mental health professionals.
Wellness programs
Benefits Think 4 ways employers can motivate employees to lose weight
In the sedentary office environment, companies must find ways to motivate workers to be more active, including walking meetings, team sports and health workshops.
Victoria Emmitt
Marathon Health
Benefits Think Why sitting is the new office health epidemic
Companies need to get employees moving in order to improve health, focus and productivity.
Betsey Banker
Ergotron
Benefits Think 4 ways employers can motivate employees to lose weight
In the sedentary office environment, companies must find ways to motivate workers to be more active, including walking meetings, team sports and health workshops.
Victoria Emmitt
Marathon Health
New bill would allow employers to force genetic testing on workers
The Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act, which clarifies legality of biometric testing in well-being plans, advances in the House.
Health coaches drive wellness program participation
Well-being programs utilizing a highly personalized approach tend to see greater employee support as well as increased medical cost savings.
Health coaches drive wellness program participation
Well-being programs utilizing a highly personalized approach tend to see greater employee support as well as increased medical cost savings.
Employers embrace new strategies to cut healthcare costs
Transparency tools, HSAs and wellness programs continue to grow in adoption, according to a new study.
Employers embrace new strategies to cut healthcare costs
Transparency tools, HSAs and wellness programs continue to grow in adoption, according to a new study.
Employers pursue well-being programs over wellness
More benefit consultants are being asked how to improve the lives of clients’ workers beyond fitness and diabetes prevention.
How employers use workplace wellness trends to better engage workers
A better understanding of five emerging trends can help companies make strategic decisions to get workers on the road to good health.
Employers pursue well-being programs over wellness
More benefit consultants are being asked how to improve the lives of clients’ workers beyond fitness and diabetes prevention.
Benefits Think How to best engage employees in wellness programs
Incentives can help workers re-evaluate their fitness goals, says wellness director Gary Cassidy.
Gary Cassidy
Corporate Synergies
Benefits Think An accurate definition of wellness
Advisers and employers need to look at well-being with a wider lens and push financial health, says Copatient’s Thomas Torre.
Thomas Torre
Copatient
Benefits Think Why it’s important to know the difference between ‘fit’ and ‘well’
Well-being initiatives should go beyond physical health activities and instead create a culture that focuses on health issues that are “found in time."
Gary Cassidy
Corporate Synergies
Benefits Think 3 keys to helping clients achieve a high-ROI sleep-health program
Proper rest is often a forgotten component of employee wellness, says researcher Alyssa Cairns, who shares how to make it a priority.
Alyssa Cairns
SleepMed
Benefits Think Court’s ‘punt’ leaves unanswered wellness, ADA questions
The decision in EEOC v. Flambeau addressing whether an employer's wellness program violated the ADA still leaves employers with questions, says attorney Garret Fenton.
Garrett A. Fenton
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
Benefits Think Avoiding retaliatory action in new wellness rules
Recent regulations by the EEOC approved in 2016 have begun enforcement and could cause conflict for some employers and brokers, says attorney Brenna A. Davenport.
Brenna A. Davenport
Poyner Spruill LLP
Benefits Think An accurate definition of wellness
Employers need to look at well-being with a wider lens and push financial health, says Copatient’s Thomas Torre.
Thomas Torre
Copatient
Benefits Think Why wellness should be a year-long resolution
Well-being shouldn’t just be top of mind for employers at the beginning of the New Year. Here’s how to create a year-round program for employees.
Tomer Ben-Kiki
Happify