Wellness Programs : Employees Will Pay for Weight Loss Help.
Looking for incentives to get overweight staff members to purchase into a health promotion program? A recent study suggests many staff members are even willing to pay much – or all – of the cost themselves.
Roughly 35 percent of firms with wellness programs focus on providing personnel with convenient access to weight reduction resources.
A poll of 1,352 workers by the Strategies to Overcome and Avoid Obesity Alliance found that many people would gladly chip in for the cost of the health promotion program if they believed it’d help them lose weight. What workers want –
• confidential support and counseling
• Access to a expert nutritionist or fitness trainer, and
• onsite exercise plans.
Until recently, only large corporations were able offer such health promotion programs as part of their wellness benefits. But the fastest growth of these health promotion programs in the last two years has been in smaller firms (sometimes with as few as 50 full-time employees).
The majority of firms split the cost with personnel. Typically, personnel pay up to about 25 percent of the cost. But some plans are fully staff member paid.
