Corporate Wellness : Staff Members Will Pay for Weight Loss Help.
Posted by Corporate Wellness | Posted in Corporate Wellness, Wellness Programs | Posted on 07-09-2010
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Looking for incentives to get overweight personnel to buy into a health promotion program? A recent published study suggests many personnel are even willing to pay much – or all – of the cost themselves.
Roughly 35% of firms with health promotion programs focus on providing workers with convenient access to losing weight resources.
A poll of 1,352 personnel by the Strategies to Overcome and Avoid Obesity Alliance found that many people would gladly chip in for the cost of the wellness program when they believed it’d help them lose weight. What personnel want –
• confidential support and counseling
• Access to a professional nutritionist or personal trainer, and
• on-site fitness programs.
Until recently, only large businesses were able offer such wellness programs as part of their wellness benefits. But the fastest growth of these wellness programs in the last two years has been in smaller firms (sometimes with as few as 50 full-time employees).
The majority of firms split the cost with staff members. Typically, staff members pay up to about 25% of the cost. But some plans are fully worker paid.