Employee Health and Wellness
Everywhere you look today, companies are searching for ways to cut costs and extend their limited resources. Who can blame them really? By the time they’ve paid for everything from property taxes, insurance, overhead, seismic reinforcements, and that new wheelchair access ramp to the fancy new office and ineffective company healthcare or “sickness” plan, there isn’t always a lot left over in the way of profit.
By contrast, an effective and meaningful “wellness” program can not only cut down on expensive time off, lost productivity, and misappropriated funds that focus mostly on dealing with symptoms, it often breathes life into the company in many different ways.
By operating the company as a wellness “business” or offering discounted employee wellness products, you wellness directors and benefits managers may actually extend your company’s resources further than you think. In fact, we find that employees that are given healthy options and education regarding making wise lifestyle choices and informed nutritional selections are more productive, value their positions in the company more, and tend to contribute much more in the way of positive energy to the team.
If you’re a person in the position to introduce wellness options to your company, you may want to suggest supplementation and wellness-based incentives programs as just a couple of possibilities that may really go a long way in boosting your company’s overall numbers toward employee satisfaction and reaching target goals.
Employees that have healthy options and who take preventative measures to optimize wellness in their lives tend to be happier, want to contribute more, and have a much higher level of satisfaction in their jobs. If you’re in a smaller company, you may have an added benefit in operating the company’s new wellness program as its own unique wellness business. In that event, the wellness program would actually pay for itself and would actually function as an added “benefit” that may set your company above the competition at interview time or in overall employee retention.
For more information on employee wellness programs and options you may get some ideas from our optimal health solutions page.
