Working out has become a chore and many wellness program struggle with this. Exercise plans are often based around this feeling. They try to make working out efficient: burn the most calories in the least amount of time. But the real question here is, when did it become hard to work out and have fun Read more…
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Workplace Wellness
The Secret to Creating Engaging Fitness Challenges
Engagement. You’ve heard this word before, but what does it mean? How do you achieve it? For Wellness Programs, engagement is active participation in the program. For many employers running their first wellness challenge, engagement will be a tricky thing to master. You want your employees to participate, and be motivated, but you don’t want Read more…
Workplace Wellness
How to Run Your First Company Fitness Challenge
Employers are frequently turning to wellness programs to decrease healthcare costs, in particular, fitness challenges. Fitness challenges encourage employees to track their physical activity and get to know their co-workers. However, to run these program employers sometimes subsidize or provide fitness trackers. This approach, however, typically results in low engagement and a low return 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…
Technology
A Workplace Wellness Solution for Smokers
As a company you may want to institute an workplace wellness program (and promote wellness in the workplace), but believe that it won’t reach smokers: smoking is a common deterrent to exercise. Smokers may not only have more difficulty exercising, but also may feel less motivated to exercise since they find it to be more Read more…