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2010's Top 10 Developments in Employee Wellness
Here, in no particular order, are the Employee Wellness Network‘s picks for 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Employee Wellness: The Washington Post reveals what most employee benefit managers long...
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Wellness Managers: 6 Reasons to Toot Your Own Horn
It’s easy to get jaded about awards for employee wellness programs, or to feel that doing presentations at conferences and talking to the media are luxuries you don’t have time for. But seeking public...
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Mind Map: Making Workplace Wellness Social (CoHealth Tweetchat)
Tweet chats and mind maps were made for each other. Below is my first real effort at a mind map — based on October 19th’s CoHealth Tweetchat, “Making Workplace Wellness Social.” Click on the thumbnail...
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Employee Wellness and Engagement
Right Management and the World Economic Forum conducted in 2010 a compelling study on the relationship between employee wellness and employee engagement. Among the study’s findings: “…When health and...
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Buddy System Trumps Incentives in New Study
A new study that flew under the radar of most wellness professionals may have major implications for our understanding of how to influence health behavior and the role of outcomes-based incentives. The...
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The (Theoretical?) Framework of Employee Wellness
How is employee wellness supposed to work? We still haven’t wrapped up our commentary on the Shape Up employer wellness survey. Things got stuck when it came to understanding the opinions employers...
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Counting on Pedometers for Workplace Wellness
The first pedometer illustrations were done in the 15th century by Leonardo da Vinci. With all the chatter these days about whiz-bang innovations in employee wellness — mobile apps, body sensors,...
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Wellness ROI: Where Always Equals Rarely
In 2010, Harvard economist Katherine Baicker and co-authors, in a study published in Health Affairs, declared, ”medical costs fall by about $3.27 for every dollar spent on wellness programs.” The...
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Preventive Health Science Gets Expelled from Wossamotta U
“If these programs saved even one life because a medical condition is uncovered as a result of this program it will have been worthwhile from Penn State’s perspective.” Imagine a university determined...
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8 Wellness Predictions for 2014 and Beyond
Hula hooping at the Folsum Street Fair, San Francisco. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I confess that I’m not much of a prognosticator. In 2008, I predicted that Facebook would go the way of the hula hoop....
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