Looking for incentives to get overweight personnel to buy into a wellness program? A recent published study suggests many personnel are even willing to pay much â.” or all â.” of the cost themselves.
Roughly 35% of firms with wellness programs focus on providing staff members with convenient access to losing weight resources.
A poll of 1,352 staff members by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance found that many individuals would gladly chip in for the cost of the health promotion program if they believed it would help them lose weight. What staff members want -
o confidential support and counseling
o Access to a professional nutritionist or personal trainer, and
o on-site fitness programs.
Until lately, only big companies were able offer such health promotion programs as part of their wellness benefits. But the fastest growth of these health promotion 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 workers. Normally, workers pay up to about 25 percent of the cost. But some plans are fully employee paid.
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