Health and Wellness Programs comprise a range of benefits that companies can offer their employees through their insurers. This can be provided either through an Employee Care Program (although by itself is considered a health and wellness focused program), or other types of assistance programs.
Traditionally, Health and Wellness Programs focus on basic issues such as good nutrition, stress management, or programs focused on mental health.
If you are an employer, you know that any tool that enables an improvement in the quality of life of your employees will ultimately be reflected in their performance, proactivity and efficiency.
When your employees are having a fulfilling life, job performance improves considerably. In this way, your employees stay focused and the levels of stress or anxiety caused by the work world are reduced.
Most importantly, however, your employees will be less at risk of incidents directly or indirectly related to their working conditions. In the long run, putting the integrity of your workers at risk can lead to major problems, which may end up causing collateral damage.
Therefore, if you are thinking of incorporating a Health and Wellness Program for the first time or improving the conditions that your company already has, we at Lewer want to give you some practical solutions that will be of great benefit to your employees.
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1. Physical conditioning and nutrition
The sedentary lifestyle and its effects represent one of the major problems of the 21st century. Millions of workers find it impossible to combine their working life with a healthy lifestyle.
For this reason, many companies have opted to implement on-site or company-sponsored gyms. They offer healthy snacks to their employees and have extended lunch time.
With this, they seek to eliminate the excuse of “I don’t have time to exercise or eat healthy”.
It has been proven that good nutrition and physical condition are capable of improving not only work performance, but life in general.
2. Financial health programs
Financial health refers to the ability to meet common and unexpected expenses without major problems and without overburdening personal or family finances.
Problems related to finances are one of the biggest causes of stress for workers, so it is not only a matter of providing a good salary, but also of giving them the tools to make it easier to maintain a balance.
Teach how to balance income, expenses and savings in a novel way to implement health and wellness programs in your company.
3. Smoking Cessation Programs
It is no secret that the current smoking population has increased significantly. In fact, according to records from various international organizations, just a few years ago it was estimated that almost five million Canadians were active smokers.
If we put it in perspective, this amount would represent a little less than 4% of the total population of our country and knowing the effects that this can cause on health, it is an alarming figure.
Offering a Smoking Cessation Wellness and Health Program gives your employees the possibility to significantly reduce the development of smoking-related diseases. This in order to preserve health, improve living conditions and their performance both on and off the job.
4. Emotional health strategies
Finally, incorporating strategies to improve the mental and emotional health of your employees is one of the best decisions you can make for your employees.
The increase in mental illness can affect not only work performance but life in general. This is why it is becoming increasingly common to create mental health care strategies, the results of which have been evident from the outset.
Incorporate a Health and Wellness Program in your company!
Now that you know these benefits from a more human approach, it’s time to talk to the experts. Please contact us at 800-387-8244 or [email protected].
