Here is some of the latest information about corporate wellness from the US Corporate Wellness Blog.
Health-care insurance continues to take a big bite of everyone’s bottom line. Expect employers to take a more personal interest in your well-being through mandatory corporate wellness programs. Challenger, Gray & Christmas predict, “Office equipment such as Steelcase’s WalkStations, which allow workers to walk on treadmills while at their computers, will catch on nationwide.” You can also look forward to your employer taking an interest in unhealthy behaviors you may engage in outside the office.
“More companies will follow the lead of one Indiana company, which announced that workers who allow health risks such as tobacco use, obesity or high cholesterol to go unchecked will pay more for their company health insurance beginning in 2009,” says Challenger.
Business owners must find ways to prevent costly health-care problems such as heart disease and diabetes now, medical experts said Tuesday. Otherwise, companies are prime targets to lose thousands of dollars in revenue and experience an increased rate of absenteeism among their employees.
“As a small-business owner or employee, you can’t control health-care costs,” said Jason Bandermann, business referral services manager at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. “But there are ways to control an employee’s exposure to a destructive lifestyle.”
Employee Wellness programs are clearly the solution.
Jim
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