Fran Melmed

Fran Melmed is an award-winning HR communications consultant specializing in workplace wellness and health care consumerism. Prior to founding context communication consulting llc context communication, Fran worked at Hewitt Associates in their Talent and Organizational Change and Communication practices in the U.S. and U.K. Contact her at fran@contextcommunication.com, and follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/femelmed.

Employee Health Benefits: For Employers, Maybe They Really Are Priceless

Fran MelmedNovember 23, 2010

By simple accounting standards, employers should be dancing in the street at the possibility of eliminating health care benefits in 2014. It’s not like … Read more

Do Your Employees Really Need a Smart Phone Health App?

Fran MelmedNovember 15, 2010

I need a health app, so said a client. Why? I asked. Some employees are asking for them, the client said. Mobile health applications are the new sexy. … Read more

How to Communicate With All Your Non-Wired, Hard-to-Reach Employees

Fran MelmedNovember 9, 2010

I’m a member of the Council of Communication Management (CCM), a professional community of roughly 350 senior communication professionals. One of the ways … Read more

Four Signs To Help Encourage Employee Wellness

Fran MelmedOctober 28, 2010

There’s no doubt that we have a lot of unhealthy people in the U.S. workforce — and more set to enter it at some point. Disease management, acute risk and … Read more

Traffic Lights and Layoffs: How a U.K. Company Used One for the Other

Fran MelmedOctober 15, 2010

Here’s a layoff story that has to be read to be believed: “All 16,000 employees of Everything Everywhere, the mobile phone company created by the … Read more

What Story Will Your Company’s Health and Wellness Strategy Tell?

Fran MelmedOctober 7, 2010

By Fran Melmed Employees and employers are set to see double-digit increases again this year. I’m not sure that’s a shocker anymore. It’s certainly not … Read more

The Health Care ROI Debate: Do I Really Need to Sell You on Wellness?

Fran MelmedSeptember 28, 2010

I frequently interview non-client companies to hear what they’re doing to build health-supporting cultures. One question I always ask is: … Read more

7 Memorable Lessons on Work & Life

Fran MelmedSeptember 22, 2010

Note: Frequent TLNT contributor Fran Melmed attended this month’s Business Innovation Factory 6th annual summit (BIF-6) in Providence, Rhode Island. … Read more

Why Everything Communicates, Whether You Want it to or Not

Fran MelmedSeptember 15, 2010

An early lesson in my career was that everything communicates. That lesson rang loud and true recently as I listened to a good friend tell me she’d just … Read more

Workplace Flexibility: If You Can’t Have it All, What’s Close Enough?

Fran MelmedAugust 26, 2010

When I left Hewitt, I knew it’d be hard to find another company as flexible. During my time there I’d worked traditional hours, compressed hours, and an … Read more