Workplace Wellness

10 Reasons Not To Use Excel For Your Company’s Step Challenge

Step challenges (a type of wellness challenge) are a great way to promote fitness in any corporate wellness program. They are low cost and, if done correctly, can be very engaging and easy to participate in. You don’t have to be a fitness guru to participate in a step challenge and there are many ways Read more…

Benefits Strategy

Why Perks Don’t Create Company Culture

Company culture is is a phrase that is often tossed around, but rarely defined. Companies want their workplaces to have it, but don’t know what kind of culture to create, let alone how to create it. Many companies will turn to perks, or employee benefits (part of a broader employee benefit program), as a way Read more…

Workplace Wellness

Insurance Company Gives Out Free Apple Watches

Don’t you wish apple watches were free? For Aetna employees, this wish is now a reality. On September 27th Aetna issued an official announcement that it will be partnering with Apple to offer free wearable technology Apple watches to its employees. Aetna will also offer discounted apple watches to large employers and individuals in 2017 Read more…

Workplace Wellness

Employee Productivity through Exercise

It’s the middle of the afternoon and you start to have that heavy feeling. No this isn’t a 5 hour energy commercial, it’s your reality. Acute fatigue is a problem that faces many employees around the country and its costing companies thousands. According to government research, scientists estimate that fatigue-related employee productivity losses cost companies Read more…