Workplace Health and Wellness
Start a Corporate Wellness Program for Your Employees Today
Jul 23, 2006
By starting a workplace Health and Wellness program, companies help employees become healthier, happier and more productive. Find ideas for a corporate wellness program.
The benefits to starting a workplace health and wellness program are many.
A few corporate health and wellness tips to get employees started on the path to a healthier lifestyle:
- Look around, and determine if employees lead a healthy lifestyle before starting an employee wellness program. How many employees dash outside at lunch for a smoke break? Would a smoking cessation program help? How often do the junk food-laden vending machines have to be replenished? Is anyone exercising or taking advantage of local walking trails as part of their healthy living goals? The answers to these questions will give companies a better idea of the employee wellness program that's right for them.
- Survey employees to determine their healthy lifestyle habits. Are they exercising regularly? Eat three square meals a day? Have regular physicals? Really? Then what planet are they on? Because we would love to visit! A corporate wellness program benefits most companies because employees don't have the time or energy to stay on top of health and wellness concerns at work or when they leave the office to go home.
- Give corporate health and wellness programs a big kick-off with a healthy living "fair." Offer employees free flu shots, blood pressure checks, cholesterol screenings, body/fat ratio assessments, smoking cessation programs and free mammograms- and contact the local hospital, because there's plenty more where this came from. Companies keep their employees hopping during the week. Give employees a chance to amp up their healthy lifestyle on the company dime. A corporate health and wellness program is an added benefit that employees get for working for the company!
- Incent to live- offer cash money for employees to lose weight, commit to a smoking cessation program and generally enjoy a healthier lifestyle. Encourage humankind's innate competitive nature by offering prizes for health and wellness employee "winners." And, encourage a healthier lifestyle by sponsoring employees who want to enter a local 5K for charity race, run a marathon or play a sport.
Get more tips about starting an employee wellness program on a budget and tips for starting a corporate wellness program that really works.
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