As global competition continues to rise, employers are increasingly finding the importance in a healthy and productive work force. Employees' health has both a direct and indirect impact on an employer's bottom line, and to battle these costs, more employers are focusing on wellness programs, according to Change Agent Work Group.
In fact, in a recent CAWG webinar on wellness, Kate Kohn-Parrott, president and CEO of Greater Detroit Area Health Council, noted that employees' lifestyles made a huge impact on an employer's financial situation because many of the diseases suffered by the population, such as diabetes, are directly related to poor health decisions.
"We recognized very quickly that the lifestyles our employees led were driving a lot of our costs and that we had a variety of controllable lifestyle conditions," Kohn-Parrott said.
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