Interactive Awareness: A Corporate Example of Bringing Awareness to Nourishment
How do you guide personal awareness in today’s world of constant streams of information coming to us in all forms? The Internet has given us the gift of searching through the abundance of information...
View ArticleElevating Safety Performance by Integrating Wellness: A Construction Case Study
Over the last twenty years, ergonomists and safety professionals have been highly successful in reducing the frequency and severity of workplace injuries across several industries. Though the employee...
View ArticleAffordably Creating a Wellness Culture At a Small Company: A Case Study
Rising healthcare premiums, high claims rates, poor benefit offerings. All of these factors can spell trouble for a small company trying to maintain strong participation in its benefit plans. To target...
View ArticleCorporate Wellness and Urban Hospitals: A Partnership for Good Health
Corporate wellness is often, as a matter of physical location and the ready accessibility to doctors and nurses, a critical part of the success of urban hospitals. That is, companies with offices...
View ArticleEmployers Make Costly Healthcare Mistakes Every Day
Most readers will find it hard to believe that a vast majority of employers are costing themselves millions of dollars every year. That is to say that they are totally on board with conventional...
View ArticleChipotle Mexican Grill – A Study in Sustainable Wellness
In 2010, Chipotle, a restaurant provider of “food with integrity,” wanted to develop a wellness program to change company culture. The wellness program chosen through the company’s healthcare provider...
View ArticleMoving Employee Health Into Action
It wasn’t too long ago that C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general, challenged Americans to “create a smoke-free society in the United States by the year 2000.”1 Boeing Co. stepped up to the...
View ArticleThe Breakers Palm Beach Case Study
For The Breakers Palm Beach, the wellbeing and fulfillment of its 2,000 team members are top priority. This independent, family-owned resort makes an unprecedented investment in that commitment, to...
View ArticleLocal and International Disease Threats: How to Secure the Corporate Workplace
A proactive approach to local and international disease threats is an essential safeguard to business productivity. Human capital is arguably worth more to a business than tangible assets because it is...
View ArticleEmployer Case Studies – Lam Research, Royal Caribbean Cruses, LTD., and...
Case Study 1 – Lam Research Lam Research is an American multinational corporation operating in Austria, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States and designs, manufactures and services semiconductor...
View ArticleWhat GlaxoSmithKline Discovered About Using Energy as a Wellness Tool
Energy. noun en・er・gy \ˈe-nər-jē\ Energy is the physical or mental ability that allows an individual o do something. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), headquartered in Brentford, London and one of the largest...
View ArticleHumana Revs Up Workplace Team-Based Activities
Corporate Wellness Magazine interviewed health insurer giant Humana about its goals of healthcare delivery within a revolutionized industry. Humana CEO Bruce Broussard provides insight how the company...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Normal
Normal, Illinois—larger than a village but smaller than a city. With its Middle American charm and an award for being one of the top ten towns in the Midwest for Millennials to work, Normal is a...
View ArticleWhen Teachers are Healthy Students do Better
From the boardroom to the classroom, Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) have learned and implemented game-changing lessons about how teacher health affects their attendance, morale and performance...
View ArticleWhy Employees Fail in Wellness
Sometimes it takes a pair of fresh eyes with a different perspective to see what’s working and what’s not in a corporate wellness program. HR Directors work feverishly hard to bring in the best...
View ArticleManaging Metabolic Syndrome is a Delicious Boost to ROI
When I made my way west after graduate school and arrived as a nutrition consultant at a high profile Silicon Valley tech company, I was stunned to discover that for such an educated, seemingly...
View ArticleEmpowering the Power Workers – Faith Technology Case Study
With 15 locations across six states with a total of 2,050 employees, Menasha, Wisconsin-based electrical contractors Faith Technologies counts on its “Wellness Chargers” in its company-wide corporate...
View ArticleChipotle Mexican Grill – A Study in Sustainable Wellness
In 2010, Chipotle, a restaurant provider of “food with integrity,” wanted to develop a wellness program to change company culture. The wellness program chosen through the company’s healthcare provider...
View ArticleMoving Employee Health Into Action
It wasn’t too long ago that C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general, challenged Americans to “create a smoke-free society in the United States by the year 2000.”1 Boeing Co. stepped up to the...
View ArticleYour Headaches Aren’t Caused By What You Think
I know you might think that chocolate, wine, stress, bad posture or another factor might cause your headaches but I can guarantee that they are not the cause! First, however, a little science before I...
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