Workplace Wellness

Working long hours while trying to have a well-rounded life outside of work is a challenge.

When cutting corners seems like the only way to get it all done, people often sacrifice things that are vital to health and wellness: exercise, healthy diet, good sleep habits.

Stress compounds the problem, making it difficult to give 100% to … Continue Reading »

One-size-fits-all doesn’t work when it comes to planning a health fair.

An extravagant, multi-focused fair might be perfectly suited to a large corporation with deep pockets.

If you’re a smaller business with a proportionately small budget, though, your organization may fare better with something less showy. And that’s OK!

Whether it’s big or small, whether it covers a … Continue Reading »

The obesity epidemic: It’s a term often used in reference to America’s expanding collective waistline, and its connotations are grim.

The phrase calls to mind a nation populated by overweight men, women, and children struggling with obesity-related medical problems and their associated costs. A future of poor nutrition, insufficient exercise, and ill health.

Thanks to you and … Continue Reading »

So you’ve pulled together the health fair to end all health fairs, and now you’d like to sit back and take a well-earned break. Sorry, not quite yet.

Now that the groundwork is laid, it’s time to do what any corporate wellness expert does best: Promote, promote, promote.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter how well organized … Continue Reading »

Lucky for those whose jobs revolve around promoting wellness in the workplace, corporate wellness has become a household term. It continues to gain more recognition as a necessity, not just a smart business practice.

And that’s lucky for employees, too.

Before corporate wellness programs started pushing for healthier workers, there was little to inspire a sedentary person … Continue Reading »

How often do you get to plan something from the bottom up, exactly the way you want to?

That’s the freedom you can enjoy when planning a health fair for your employees. The thing is, a health fair can be whatever you, the organizer, want it to be.

Who knows better than you do the particular needs … Continue Reading »

What’s making your employees fat? Is it too little exercise? Too many calories? Their jobs?

Odds are, especially if your staff is composed of desk workers, it’s a combination of those factors.

Working behind a desk all day allows little in the way of physical activity, and many people don’t make a conscious effort to remedy their … Continue Reading »

You’ve heard of walking to work and walking at work, but how about walking while you work?

That’s what at least two companies are attempting to facilitate in the name of workplace wellness, reports Medical News Today.

Employers affiliated with the insurance company Aetna will benefit from the company’s recently announced collaboration with Details, the manufacturer of … Continue Reading »

In this small pocket of time between Christmas festivities and the dawn of the New Year, many people put their plans for starting a fitness regimen on hold for just a little while longer.

So now is the perfect time for you to get a jump-start on wellness promotion.

You can use the pre-New-Year lull to your … Continue Reading »

If losing weight is a challenge (and we all know it is), then keeping those pounds from coming back can be even tougher.

Weight maintenance is the other half of the healthy-weight equation.

Many workplace wellness facilitators focus so much of their efforts on promoting weight loss that sometimes the concept of weight management gets short … Continue Reading »