Benefits Strategy

Paid Time Off As a Low Cost Wellness Incentive

Sometimes it can be difficult to find room in the budget for employee benefits, wellness benefits, and wellness incentives. This is especially true if you are working in a small business (see our guide to small business employee benefits). One method that employers started using as an incentive to meet wellness goals is rewarding with Read more…

Benefits Strategy

Fitness Subsidies: Gym Reimbursement vs Fitness Rewards

Fitness subsidies, gym reimbursements and fitness rewards are some of the most desired and effective components of a worthwhile corporate wellness employee benefit program, as they lead to more engaged employees. In fact, 86% of mid-large sized employers offer some sort of wellness financial rewards in order to remain competitive in the labor market. On 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…

Benefits Strategy

Gym Reimbursement Programs: The Top Mistakes

Workplace wellness employee benefit programs are in place in a growing number of companies (companies like Google are actually setting the standard for a world-class employee benefit program), and one of the most common is the Gym Reimbursement Program, or Fitness Subsidies. The idea is great, in theory: companies provide employees with a discount or Read more…

Benefits Strategy

Attract and Retain the Talent of Generation Y

Generation Y has already started to spread through the workforce and more are coming. If you don’t adapt to the culture of this new wave of workers you may find yourself left behind. But don’t fret, here is a list of 7 steps created by-posted-hosted-and promoted by Generation Y’ers to help you attract and retain Read more…