Employers: Promote Employee Health for a Happier, More Productive Workforce
Health issues consistently make headlines these days, from Americans’ struggles with obesity to increasing rates of diseases such as diabetes. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Health: The Productivity Factor
We've heard that health can improve a worker's productivity by improving their physical capacity. But to be more accurate, improved health can improve a worker's ability to be more productive. Productivity is largely a factor of an employee's desire to work. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Lower Back Pain Prevention in the Workplace
In the office, much health and safety public attention is focused on manual labor in the field. However, significant numbers – on average 75 percent – of the workforce in the oil and gas industry, for example, have desk jobs. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
The Rock Stars of Wellness Present at the Corporate Wellness Conference
I can’t tell you how excited I am at all of the rock star speakers that are coming to present at the Corporate Wellness Conference September 20-22nd 2010 in Los Angeles Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Suggestions and Resources for Healthy Meetings at your Worksite
Our physical and social environments can have a major impact on our health and safety. Many employees spend most of their waking hours in the workplace and those surroundings can influence choices to eat well and be active on a daily basis. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Medication Compliance Is a Top Concern for Employers
Some 54% of Americans don’t take their medicines or follow a treatment plan as prescribed by their health care provider. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
How to Make Behavior Change Last
One in five of American adults smoke. Half of the smoking population tries and fails to quit each year. Two thirds of us are overweight or obese and 95% of our diet plans fail. The medical community tells us that 70% of premature death and aging is lifestyle-related – a result of our bad health habits. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Prevention: A Key to Cost-Containment
Healthcare costs are spiraling out of control. Consider the following facts presented by Towers Perrin in a 2009 Healthcare Cost Survey: Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Healthcare Reform: Moving the Wellness Needle, Compressing the Trend Curve – Healthier is Better
Critics of the new federal healthcare reform (HCR) provisions assert that the law is largely a move toward increased cost and higher taxes to cover the cost. HCR is a reality one must embrace, rather than simply criticize. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Become More Optimistic to Improve Health and Success
Is the glass of your life half-empty or half-full? Your answer may influence your professional and personal success and your mental and physical health, possibly even which diseases you develop. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Why Spain is Frightened to Develop On-Site Corporate Fitness Centres
Strangely, Spain has the first fitness penetration in the whole citizenship in West Europe, with a medium of 14% (Catalunya region is over 20%). In France, as example, this ratio is less than 5%. Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Good-Intentioned Wellness Programs Need Rules Too
A drier topic never draws a bigger crowd than a workshop on legal compliance regarding employment benefits. While Human Resource professionals aren’t required to be legal experts, Read more...
Jul 8, 2010
Getting Started on the Road to Better Health
It’s no secret that saving money is a great incentive to get employees started with a wellness program. Some people need that extra push that gives them a reason to go to the gym, to the doctor, or to take a walk. Read more...
Jun 16, 2010
Taking Stress Management Techniques from the Office to Your Home
There are many forms of stress management that people use to combat Read more...
Jun 14, 2010
Brain Wave Vibration- Re-Booting Your Employees Brains
Imagine your organization’s productivity soaring towards profitable heights. Imagine your employees spending more time working efficiently and less time out sick. Read more...
Jun 11, 2010