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The fitness bug has bitten almost everyone these days. Gyms, aerobics, kickboxing, spinning classes, Bollywood dancing, belly dancing, power yoga, and many such creative exercise regimes may be listed in your fitness centre’s brochure. While some people go for such innovative workout sessions, others prefer mix and match, while the rest are happy with [...]
Investment in wellness programs is not the self-starter that many would like to believe when it comes to implementation in corporates all over the world. HR managers seem reluctant to adopt despite the benefits being there for all to see based on the implementation in some companies. As a case in point a recent article [...]
A recent survey (of 225 major U.S. companies employing 7.6 million employees) by the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and IncentOne shows that the number of major U.S. employers using incentives to promote employer-sponsored health and wellness programs rose from 62 percent to 71 percent between 2007 and 2008. The [...]
Is personal health and wellness part of your strategy? Does corporate wellness stop when your employees leave the office? Give Your Employees Personal Health and Wellness Continuity If employees don’t have the tools to pursue wellness on a personal level, then it becomes easy for them to “fall off the wagon” and slide back into [...]
Was employee health & wellness on your company’s new year’s resolutions list? Here we are a little over midway into the fourth month of 2008, the time when resolutions start to falter if they haven’t lost momentum completely. Has your employee wellness resolution fallen by the wayside? If so, there are still ways to get [...]
In an interesting report, six experts share their views on the future of PHRs, from the perspective of the technologist, informed patient, physician, employer, and public health professional. The ideal PHR holds tremendous potential. It could receive and evaluate information from a patient’s lab results or monitoring devices; store a patient’s observations about physical and [...]
In a recent article, Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman, World Economic Forum have covered the impact of companies commitment to employee wellness in the workplace on a global scale. The WHO estimates that China will lose $558 billion, India $237 billion and Russia $303 billion in [...]
Indian Council For Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in its study based on a survey of disparate companies across 15 states of India, showed 12% of blue-collar workers were at a high risk of getting a debilitating disease compared to 4% of the medium and senior-level employees. While blue-collar workers are generally afflicted with [...]
Through mostly free exercise, nutrition, disease management and other activities, employees can learn better health practices that improve their daily performance at work and at home — and earn cash and prizes along the way. Came across an interesting article on how Northern Michigan Regional Hospital is helping it’s employees stay fit… Exceprts below “The [...]
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