Wellness Library

Your Guide to Health and Wellness in the Workplace

wellness leafThe health of your employees is vitally important — to productivity, costs, profits, and every other aspect of your business.

You'll gain higher performance from your employees when you know how to keep them healthy and engaged in your business objectives.

You’ll make your business more successful, your profits grow faster, and you’ll survive and thrive in any kind of economy (good or bad).

This is the edge Health Designs provides.

We’d like to share with you some insider information to help you know where to start…how to rate your current wellness plan…and how to understand the seven benchmarks of success.

Links

Articles, Research and White Papers (by category)

CORPORATE CULTURE

  • Employers Can Encourage Healthy Lifestyle »
    Published: January 18, 2010, Jacksonville Business Journal
    At this point, many of those New Year’s resolutions such as “lose 10 pounds” or “live healthier” have probably already been broken. It’s difficult to make big lifestyle changes overnight. However, given how much of each waking day employees spend on the job, employers should resolve to start a workplace wellness program to encourage those healthy lifestyle changes.
  • Healthy Company, Healthy Culture white paper 2009 (pdf)

HEALTH COACHING

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

  • Answer to employee fitness is a walk in the office »
    Published: November 3, 2008, Jacksonville Business Journal
    Don Wiggins, president of Heritage Capital Group and Business Valuation Inc., gets in a good two miles of walking each day at work — without ever leaving his desk.

STRESS

WORKSITE WELLNESS

  • Seven benchmarks from welcoa »
  • You Can't Change What You Can't Measure (pdf)
    Published: 2008, WELCOA’s Absolute Advantage Magazine
    To keep employees healthy and productive, the notion of providing health screenings has been embraced by companies all across the U.S. In this report, nationally-recognized expert Ann Sabbag, Founder and President of Florida-based Health Designs, Inc. and David Hunnicutt, President of WELCOA, discuss the importance of providing regular health screenings for all employees. In addition, critical information that will help you better design, deliver, and evaluate a screening initiative that will set your business apart as an employer of choice is revealed.
  • The Value of Health, Ronald Loeppke, M.D. (pdf)
    Published: 2008, International Journal of Workplace Health Management
    The paper reviews the scientific and economic business case for investing in health enhancement.
  • Wellness at Work »
    Published: April 30, 2007, Jacksonville Business Journal
    About 66 percent of American adults are either overweight or obese, according to the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

OTHER

  • Obesity's Yearly Costs (pdf)
    Published: September, 2010, USA Today
    Obesity "costs" women more than men because obese women earned lower salaries than non-obese women, according to the study.
  • It's 3 in the Afternoon »
    Published: June, 2010, Health Source Magazine
    Some days you can feel that wave building: It gets harder to concentrate, the eyelids feel heavy, the yawn escapes at an alarming rate, and you wonder how you can hold out until the end of the day. It’s afternoon body crash time! Most of us have experienced it and there are things we can do to alleviate or eliminate the feeling.
  • Yes You Can Grow Your Business in a Recession »
    Published: July 20, 2009
    There’s an old saying that you learn more from your failures than your successes. This week, consider what you can learn from other people’s successes, in the hope of avoiding failure.