Incentives reliably buy sign-ups. The 2019 JAMA randomized trial of 32,974 employees found no meaningful change in blood pressure, spending, absenteeism or job performance, while RAND’s work found that incentivized programs pull roughly twice the participation of those without rewards. The rewards work as a door opener, not the destination. That gap is the whole … Read more
Wellness program ROI is the financial return an employer gets from what it spends on employee wellness, worked out as net program benefit divided by total program cost. The standard calculation is (total measurable benefits − total program cost) ÷ total program cost × 100, where measurable benefits usually mean healthcare claim savings, fewer lost … Read more
An employee wellness program is a set of habits, policies and small benefits that look after your team’s physical, mental and financial health. The employee wellness program ideas for small business that actually stick are rarely a platform with a dashboard. They are a handful of repeatable things you do every week, most of them … Read more
Most workplace wellness programs do not fail because employees care nothing about their health. They fail because the program was designed for a generic employee who has spare time, money, a gym nearby and no shift pattern. To get employees to participate in wellness programs, you first name the barrier that is actually in the … Read more
To start an employee wellness program, work through three phases in order: assess what employees actually need, design a small set of initiatives around those needs, then launch with clear safeguards and measure what happens. Most first-time programs take three to six months from kickoff to a live offering, and the work is more listening … Read more