Without a master plan or major investment, Harold Jackson, the CEO of Colorado-based medical equipment company Buffalo Supply, established a wellness program for his 18 employees. About five years ago ...

Recruiting and retaining talent is an age-old conundrum for nonprofit organizations. Typically, salaries are lower than for-profit counterparts, so nonprofits need to balance the scales through more ...

The American College of Surgeons recently announced its new well-being initiative for surgeons. This wellness program has lofty goals: [The ACS] recognizes the need to foster well-being, resilience, ...

My relatively lengthy tech career started as a programmer with a hospital information system vendor. Within that healthcare environment, it wasn’t long before I was wondering why we wait to react ...

Workplace wellness programs are increasing in popularity as employers embrace the potential benefits of such a system. As HR specialist Stephanie Sullivan reports, these programs not only potentially ...

As health care costs have increased, employers have scrambled to find creative ways to help employees pay for benefits without decreasing their net paychecks or paying an employer contribution to ...

Most news coverage of the new Kaiser Family Foundation annual survey on employer-sponsored health plans has focused on the fact that growth in premiums in 2013 was as low as it has ever been in the 16 ...

A wax “1” sat atop layers of cake, sprinkles and frosting — but it wasn’t a birthday cake. The candle celebrated Stefan Catanach’s first year of sobriety and marked his graduation ...

A company will only be as successful as the vitality of their employees. This all sounds wonderful, especially if you’re Google where throwing large chunks of money into wellness programs is ...

In the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, business leaders focused primarily on keeping operations afloat during lockdowns and social distancing initiatives. Now, months into the pandemic, ...

In addition to providing healthcare benefits, wellness programs can be key to helping workers establish a healthy lifestyle. KFF's 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey analyzed responses from 2,142 ...

Workplace wellness programs aren't a novel concept. Johnson & Johnson launched their program in 1979. And in 2017, the Workplace Health in America survey found that almost 50% of US employers offer ...