Healthier Employees. Healthier Results.

Worksite Wellness

Worksite Wellness includes activities that a company or organization provides its employees to improve the health and well-being of their workforce. The programs or activities usually promote:

• Awareness Education

  Providing understanding about health risks, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and stress

• Behavior and Lifestyle Change

  Encouraging healthy behaviors, like exercise and proper nutrition, and discouraging such behaviors as smoking and alcohol abuse.

• Supportive Environments

  Creating a workplace environment that helps employees maintain and enhance healthy food choices, stress management, proper office ergonomics and flexible work schedules.

Companies are interested in keeping their workers healthier and happier for a variety of reasons. A recent survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and the National Business Group on Health (2007) found the leading reasons, for employers promoting wellness, to be as follows:

• Reducing Health Care Costs

  Absenteeism, presenteeism, disability, and workers' compensation

• Improving Work Performance

  Productivity and quality

• Reducing Direct Health Care Costs

  Medical and Pharmacuetical

• Improving Image of the Company Internally

  For retention purposes

• Improving Image of the Company Externally

  For recruitment purposes

This survey was given to multinational employers, representing more than 3 million employees worldwide.