Employee Wellness Programs Improve Retention

Employee retention is a challenge. Employee Wellness Programs can help. offering perks such as  incentives to exercise, healthy food, stress management and weight loss programs at work is a way to  maintain your workers satisfied.

Attracting new employees are also a challenge, and anything you can do to “stand out” from other  workers is to your advantage. Remember, salary isn’t everything. Often, the possibility of flex hours  or a discount at the local gym may be the deciding factor for a future worker. Once again, Employee  Wellness Programs to the rescue!

How Are Employee Wellness Programs Administered?

Whether running small Employee Wellness Programs in-house or using outside corporate wellness companies  to oversee the whole thing, program promotion is of utmost importance. You may have a great speaker  come in to talk about a very “hot topic,” but if no one knew about it, it was a waste of the speaker’s  time and your money.

Corporate Company Health and Wellness Program setup and promotion go hand and hand. Depending on the  size of your business, it may be handled by one person or an entire Employee Wellness team. You may  even have an worker who is interested in physical fitness and would love to organize some educational  wellness presentations and activities.

Other workers may have areas of interest and would be willing to set up some educational programs.  Especially for smaller companies, once you have chosen your events and activities, it is best to set up  a calendar with a schedule of events. Then publish the entire calendar as well as announcing each  individual event as it comes up.

Access to Employee Wellness Programs

To make access easy, offer a wide range of Employee Wellness Programs and activities that can fit into  everyone’s schedule. For example, some workers may find it difficult to get to a presentation at work  or make a commitment for 8 weeks of the Weight Watchers at Work program. However, they will take  advantage of a reduced rate at the gym and will borrow tapes from the health and wellness library.

If you have shifts, don’t forget to schedule events for the after 5:00 group. Nothing will undermine  Employee Wellness Programs more quickly than promoting great activities that are only convenient for  first shift workers.