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- Wellness Program
- a company program offering benefits, activities, or training, to improve and promote employees' health and fitness. A wellness program can include wellness benefits such as...
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- wellness programs' ROI Unclear When It Comes to Obesity
- The Find: Obesity costs U.S. companies up to $45 billion annually, according to the latest research, but expensive corporate wellness programs don't necessarily mitigate the costs. The Source: New research from The Conference Board and ING Wholesale. The Takeaway: Analysts...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Shape Up Your Company With A wellness program
- The health and happiness of your employees has a direct impact on your company's financial health. Even for small businesses where health insurance isn't an issue - because none is offered - but where absenteeism and productivity are. The good news is that small businesses have an inherent advantage when...
- White papers
- Preventive Medicine: Employee wellness programs Are Prone to Legal Maladies That Require Careful Monitoring
- On the basis of a survey of more than 500 major U.S. employers, Hewitt Associates reported that the number of companies using wellness and disease management programs increased from 73 percent in 2004 to 83 percent in 2005. Thirty percent of employers offer incentives to encourage employee participation in wellness...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- wellness programs: ERIC/Deloitte Consulting Survey Finds Cautious Optimism
- In a survey on wellness programs conducted by Deloitte Consulting LLP and The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), nearly two-thirds of respondents reported using wellness programs to improve employee health, and another one-third are considering such programs. The survey, sent to ERIC members and Deloitte Consulting's survey database, found only 5...
- White papers 2005-07-01
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- A Comprehensive Health and Wellness Strategy: The Key to Program Success
- A well developed and comprehensive business strategy is critical to ensuring that an organization's overarching objectives are achieved. Of equal importance is the development of a health management strategy to aid in the achievement health and wellness objectives, and performance benchmarks as they align with the business strategy. A health...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Selling Health To High-Risk Workers
- Ten percent of employees consume eighty percent of the health-care costs at most companies. They are the ones at the highest risk for common medical conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease, and are the least likely to change unhealthy behaviors. In order for a wellness program to...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Wellness Pay Policy - Sample
- If your company still has a sick pay policy, you're behind the times. Statistically, more than half of all sick pay is abused. Much of the rest is used by employees who have poor lifestyle choices that keep them from coming to work. Reward healthy and committed employees with wellness...
- Tools & templates 2001-01-18
- Mystery of White Powder Gold
- White powder gold assists in healing the immunity system. Since the gold works to heal the majority of problems people endure, it is said that White powder gold is the ultimate solution to wellness. Wellness includes spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, and psychological.
- White papers
- Health and Wellness in the Workplace: An Asset for Organizations
- Health is more than the absence of disease or infirmity; it also requires soundness of body, mind and spirit. Health promotion programs can improve the overall health of employees and the financial health of organizations by considering each employee's physical, mental and social well-being. Employees perform better, are absent for...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- A Vision for a Healthier America: What the States Can Do
- States face a growing chronic disease burden that threatens to overwhelm their fiscal resources and health care systems. Consequences of inaction - for individuals, states, and the country - are incalculable. To maintain global economic competitiveness, reduce burgeoning health care costs, and ensure that children have healthy futures, disease prevention/health...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Employers Have a Key Partner in Maximizing Health Management: Your Clients' Disability Insurer Can Play a Unique Role
- With health care costs still rising, employers continue to look for benefit plan solutions that meet employee needs while helping to control overall costs. Implementing an employee health-management program (such as disease management, behavioral health or employee wellness) as a benefit plan strategy has evolved to help combat this growing...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- How To Prepare a Telemarketing Program
- The startup of a telemarketing program, no matter how large or small represents a major milestone in the life of any organization. It signals the company's decision to leap into the future. This article discusses how to startup a telemarketing program. Some of these steps include: To know oneself, know...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Program Model Evaluation
- Any program or a training initiative must be assessed thoroughly to ascertain its effects on the participants. The assessment also enables the organization to know whether the program has been able to kind of impact it was supposed to make. The assessment is based on the mission and vision of...
- Presentations 2001-12-05
- Checklist for Developing a Training Program
- This article is designed to help owner-managers of small manufacturing firms to set up a systematic program for training their employees. The questions are designed to provide a step-by-step approach to the task of organizing and conducting a successful program of employee training. Whether you are considering a continuous program...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Starting a Drug Testing Program
- When a decision is made to start a drug-abuse testing program, a properly conceived, designed and implemented program will help make workplace safer, more efficient, and drug free. If not properly designed and implemented, the drug-testing program can cause more problems than it prevents. Article asses that a good policy...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- IMF Conditionality And Program Ownership: A Case For Streamlined Conditionality
- Program conditionality and ownership are important considerations in the IMF’S current rethinking of program design. This article contributes by developing a theory of program conditionality and ownership based on Cumulative Prospect Theory. The policymaker may value a set of program, each with a fewer conditions, more than an extended program...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Telecommunications: Greater Involvement Needed by FCC in the Management and Oversight of the E-Rate Program
- Since 1998, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E-rate program has committed more than $13 billion to help schools and libraries acquire Internet and telecommunications services. Recently, however, allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse by some E-rate program participants have come to light. The paper reviews the effect of the current...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Voluntary Benefits And Your Company
- The 'voluntary benefits program' introduced by an organization can prove to be a boon both for the company and its employees. The employees who avail the voluntary benefits program get substantial savings on personal insurance products and financial benefits through group purchasing. However, a company should consider the features of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Telecommunications: Concerns Regarding the Structure and FCC's Management of the E-Rate Program
- Since 1998, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E-rate program has committed more than $13 billion to help schools and libraries acquire Internet and telecommunications services. Recently, allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse by some E-rate program participants have come to light. As steward of the program, FCC must ensure that...
- White papers 2005-03-16
- Promoting Good Health: One Employers Story
- The rising cost of healthcare threatens the fabric of our society. Yet health insurance in the U.S. is traditionally reactive: a mechanism activated only after an employee has an accident or needs treatment. With unhealthy life habits, Americans are at risk for health conditions that threaten to make them long-term...
- White papers 2004-03-01
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