Yu-Kai Chou’s Octalysis Gamification Framework
As emphasized in a previous post on the gamification of wellness activities, successful gamification is hard. Users of these gamified activities…
Gamified Fitness: A Fad Or The Future?
Though there are many effective wellness promoting activities and behaviors, reaping and keeping the wellness benefits that they offer can take a…
Pulse Check: A Crash Course In The Taxability Of Wellness Incentives
Many employers offer incentives to their employees to encourage them to engage in wellness promoting behaviors. Many of these incentives are monetary…
Why Higher Salaries Aren’t Creating Happier Employees
Salary is, understandably, one of the most important factors employees look at when applying for a new job. Not only that, salaries alone influence…
Study: Commercial Apps, Rewards Programs Linked With Increased Activity Levels
As smartphone technology advances and wearable devices become more ubiquitous, a growing number of people have access to fitness tracking apps and…
EEOC Announces New Rules For Wellness Program Incentives
On June 11, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted in favor of a proposed rule regarding incentives in employer wellness…
39% Of Large Employers Offer $151-$500 In Wellness Incentives
Every year, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) releases their Employer Health Benefits Survey, which provides current information about…
Winning Reward Options For Continuous Incentive Wellness Challenges
Health and well-being is something individuals must improve upon 24/7/365. As such, successful employee wellness programs must assist employees in…
Affordable Wellness Prizes And Incentives People Will Love
In our podcast, we talked about how wellness programs are becoming a must-have, as more and more employees expect their employer to provide some…
4 Wellness Rewards To Reinvest In Employee Health
Rewarding participation is an excellent way to encourage wellness program engagement. However, picking rewards can be a tricky ordeal. Good rewards…
Top Employee Wellness Perks For 2017
As the talent wars endure, companies continue to up their game as it relates to overall perks and benefits and especially as it relates to wellness…
Study: Economists Explain How To Make Gym Commitments Stick
On average, people estimate that they’ll go to the gym they belong to more than twice as often in a month than they actually do. To counteract these…
Crossing The Wellness Reward Divide
Rewards and incentives often create challenges to finding budget for wellness programs because they often comprise a large component of the total…
Corporate Wellness Rewards: Carrot Or Stick?
Determining proper reward and incentive structures in wellness programs has always been a challenge for employers. Most commonly, the discussion…
8 Cost Effective Wellness Rewards to Drive Engagement
The growing popularity of wellness programs is limited primarily by budgetary constraints. With the advent of technology based programs, the bulk of…
Behavioral Economics, Please Meet Employer Wellness
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review challenges the conventional wisdom that wellness programs can rely on education and financial…
