Wellness Benefits for Employees - 10/29/2007

How to offer wellness benefits and services to employees on a small business budget

Wellness Benefits for Employees - 10/30/2007

Thanks for asking, Susan. Here are some resources: I hope these are what you're looking for: also read Benefit News and see Fitness Works at Work. In a review of 42 articles about corporate health and wellness, there has been shown to be a: > 28% reduction in sick leave absenteeism > 26% reduction in use of the health care benefit > 30% reduced worker's comp clams and disability management Source: Larry Chapman, "Meta-evaluation of Worksite Health Promotion Economic Return Studies", The American Journal of Health Promotion, 2003 "Employees with heart disease and heart disease risk factors cost employers thousands of dollars more than healthy employees each year through higher insurance." Source: Goetzel, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1998 "Of the $5000 per employee the average employer spent on health care in 2001, no more than 1-2% is spent on prevention. This reactive approach persists despite evidence that up to 50% of health care expenditures are life-style related and therefore potentially preventable." Source: David Anderson, PhD reporting in Wellness Councils of America's Absolute Advantage 2003 "The National Safety Council stated that in 1996, backaches alone cost industry more than $1.2 billion in production and services and $275 million in worker's compensation." Source: The American Council on Exercise, ACE Fitness Matters, January/February 2006