Employers expect health care costs to rise an average of 7 percent next year, forcing organizations to employ a variety of cost- control measures that … Read more
2012 Health Care Survey Lays Out 3 Ways For Employers to Rein In Costs
Aon Hewitt’s released their 2012 Health Care Survey and provided their findings and reactions to employers’ planned tactics to rein in costs. It lays out … Read more
Survey: How Innovative Employers Use Technology to Improve Health
ShapeUp and context released the findings from our first annual Technology + Employee Wellness Survey this week. Over the past six months, we’ve … Read more
What Are You Doing For Employees During National Wellness Month?
June is National Employee Wellness Month, an annual recognition of the importance of employee well-being that Virgin HealthMiles initiated in 2009. One … Read more
5 Tools to Help Get Employees Up and Out of Their Desks
We know prolonged sitting is detrimental to individual and business health. Prolonged sitting decreases productivity and creativity and ratchets up stress. … Read more
With Employee Wellness, Is Showing Up Just as Good as Shaping Up?
Bob Merberg has been providing thoughtful commentary on ShapeUp’s recently released survey data in an excellent series on his blog. His most recent post in … Read more
Moving Ahead on Workplace Wellness Without Management Support
An audience member at my TLNT Transform session last week in Austin asked me: What do I do if I don’t have leadership support? Is my wellness effort dead … Read more
Some 11,102 Miles Later, This Is a Wellness Program That Really Works
With all due respect to The Proclaimers, the folks at Horizon Software International have walked 11,102 miles and far from falling down at anyone’s … Read more
8 Principles For Communicating to Employees About Open Enrollment
Annual enrollment can be a crazy time, particularly if you come to the planning process late. When advising clients, here are the 8 guiding principles I … Read more
Your Company’s Wellness Message: It Pays to Not Try and Spin Employees
When it comes to communicating about workplace wellness, there’s some debate about what the company’s message should be. Some say a company should never … Read more