MINNEAPOLIS-A new study has proven that high-quality employee wellness programs offered by small businesses improve employee health and well-being which, in turn, decreases absenteeism, healthcare costs and disability claims.
The study, which was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, showed that workplace wellness can be successful in smaller businesses, as well as their larger counterparts.
"These findings clearly indicate the dramatic consequences that small employer wellness programs can have on multiple domains of well-being, such as physical health, emotional health and healthy behaviors of employees," said James E. Pope M.D., coauthor of the article, in a press release about the study. Pope is chief science officer at Healthways.
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