Company Wellness : The Other Side of Company Health Promotion.

Corporate health promotion is imperative that you the United States’s workforce. There is certainly room for health promotion programs. Notwithstanding, some groups do not support health promotion programs in the workplace. Here are two common reasons why –

Corporate Wellnes and Privacy Rights

Privacy rights seem to be the main opposition to wellness programs. Some individuals  believe that corporations have no right to tell workforce to eat healthy or lose twenty pounds.

This opinion seems to be made stronger by the hundreds of businesses seeking the help of law firms to implement more aggressive wellness programs. What a person does with his/her body is certainly a privacy issue.

However, health promotion programs were initiated to be stimulating ways to help staff members get fit by offering incentives and free health programs. When employee health promotion is brought back to its original mission and participation wasn’t monitored or mandatory, there would be far less privacy issues.

Company Wellness –  Incentives or Penalties

Consequences rarely motivate someone like incentives do. Groups opposing wellness programs are citing that some businesses are threatening unhealthy workers with consequences for not participating or succeeding in their wellness program.

An example of such a case is a company based in Indianapolis that started deducting $10.00 from each paycheck for every employee with a BMI above 29.9 because not enough employees were utilizing the company’s wellness program.

Staff Members are much more likely to participate in health promotion programs when there are incentives like cash bonuses, time off work or free products rather than the threats of consequences.

Even though both of these reasons are valid ones to oppose health promotion programs, both issues can easily be resolved by bringing company health promotion back to its primary mission.

These programs weren’t meant to invade privacy or punish unhealthful individuals, and the majority does not. They were and are meant to be a benefit to both the business and employee.

By encouraging and supporting wellness program participants, companies will likely experience success.