Employers believe in wellness programs for their workers. Now, if they could only get the workers to share that belief.
That's the major takeaway from a bswift survey of 380 corporate benefits managers who were queried about wellness programs. Bswift, a provider of software and services designed to streamline benefits, HR and payroll administration, concluded that more companies are offering wellness components to their benefits plans. But employee participation still lags.
Although "85 percent of large companies and 81 percent of smaller companies have wellness programs in place … only 44 percent of these programs have employee participation rates above 50 percent," the survey revealed.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
