The Wellable Blog

Every year, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) releases their Employer Health Benefits Survey, which provides current information about employer-sponsored health benefits.  This year's report is full of important findings, from increases in health ...

Health and well-being is something individuals must improve upon 24/7/365. As such, successful employee wellness programs must assist employees in thinking about and improving their health and well-being throughout each and every day. This is one ...

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 wellness benefits. Yet, there’s this notion that you need to be a big corporation with a deep pocket to ...

Rewarding participation is an excellent way to encourage wellness program engagement.  However, picking rewards can be a tricky ordeal.  Good rewards motivate employees to participate and continue to invest in employee health rather than sabotaging ...

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 related ones.  According to a Glassdoor survey, culture and values rank the highest as the workplace ...

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 tendencies to underutilize the gym, economists have a solution that alters the incentive equation.  ...

Rewards and incentives often create challenges to finding budget for wellness programs because they often comprise a large component of the total expenses.  In a fairy tale world, wellness administrators would always be able to sell executives on ...

Determining proper reward and incentive structures in wellness programs has always been a challenge for employers.  Most commonly, the discussion circles around whether or not corporate wellness programs can deliver better results with the carrot or ...

The growing popularity of wellness programs is limited primarily by budgetary constraints.  With the advent of technology based programs, the bulk of budgets often are comprised of rewards and incentives to drive participation.  This hurdle should ...

A recent article in the Harvard Business Review challenges the conventional wisdom that wellness programs can rely on education and financial incentives to encourage employees to be good stewards of their health.  The article points out that ...