While wellness programs are one of the most sought after benefits in a company, participation numbers are typically low. In fact, a recent Gallup survey shows that only 24% of employees are participating! For most employers, the problem is they’re not offering benefits that employees actually want. To help address this, we scoured Reddit and Read more…
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Benefits Strategy
Wellness Benefits Without Administrative Burden
If you’re an HR administrator you’re probably familiar with paperwork. And usually, wellness employee benefits, and employee benefit program administration requires a lot of paperwork due to the incentive management process. In fact, this can be a major deterrent of implementing any new program. So if your company wants to run a step challenge or Read more…
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
Are Wellness Program Incentives Taxable?
The benefits of workplace wellness programs are endless. Not only is it useful for attracting top talent, but healthier employees inevitably lead to “lower medical claims costs, which leads to lower medical premiums, which leads to a better profit margin.” To boost engagement, most employers offer some sort of incentive to employees for participation. However, Read more…
Workplace Wellness
How to Promote Nutrition in your Wellness Program
We at Incentfit know that an office culture of wellness is the best way to not only attract top of the line employees, but also to keep staff productive and happy. Nutrition is incredibly important to maintaining optimal performance and mood throughout the day. However, promoting nutrition, and even hydration in your wellness program or Read more…