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Why Wellness Won’t Work (and when it will)

Why Wellness Won't Work

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Why Wellness Won’t Work(and when it will)

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A recent National Worksite Health Promotion Survey reported that five main obstacles impede successful implementation of Wellness Programs.

Is your organization suffering from one of them?

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The idea wasn’t hard to get behind:

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Healthy employees

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And it’s caught on quickly. In 2015, 80% of employers reported that they had a wellness program in place.

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But twenty years into the “wellness movement”, what do we have to show for it?

A good deal of recent evidence raises serious doubt about the real-world efficacy of workforce wellness programming and the ability of today's employer to implement it effectively.

The bottom line? Some programs work, but many do not. © Healthgram, Inc. 2016

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What increases the likelihood of “wellness”

success?

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Obstacle %Lack of employee interest 63Insufficient staff resources 50Inadequate funds 48Failure to engage high-risk employees 48Inability to gain upper-management support

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Let’s start by examining the obstacles. The 2004 National Worksite Health Promotion Survey reports that five main obstacles impede successful implementation of Worksite Wellness Programs. Specifically the survey found the following:

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A successful strategy overcomes each of these obstacles and includes:• Establishing aligned goals• Engaging the right people• Actionable reporting• Smart vendor selection

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In our whitepaper Why Wellness Won't Work, we dive deeper into these issues and identify why some programs work and some do not.

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You’ll learn:• How to identify and overcome five

obstacles employers face when implementing wellness

• Employee engagement strategies based on 40 years of industry insight

• The key questions to ask before implementing a wellness strategy