Survey: Most Employees Unimpressed with Current Wellness Programs
Employee wellness or wellbeing has become a growing focal point of many organizations’ rewards programs, in an effort to help employees better maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial...
View ArticleIs Drug Testing Employees Still Worth the Cost?
For a growing number of US employers, the answer is “no,” Rebecca Greenfield and Jennifer Kaplan report at Bloomberg, pointing to organizations like Excellence Health, a 6,000-employee company which...
View ArticleUK Employers Urged to Cut the Cake
When it comes time to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other milestones, there’s nothing quite like cake, but a new toolkit issued recently by Business in the Community and Public Health England...
View ArticleUK Employees Taking Fewer Sick Days May Point to Presenteeism
New government data from the UK indicates that employees there are taking sick days off work at a historically low rate, Workplace Insight’s Neil Franklin reports: A new report from the Office for...
View ArticleOSHA Plans to Scale Back Workplace Illness and Injury Reporting Requirements
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the US Department of Labor has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that “would amend OSHA’s recordkeeping regulation by rescinding the...
View ArticleMassachusetts: Construction Workers Account for Nearly 1 in 4 Opioid Overdose...
In a new report, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health finds that construction workers made up nearly one quarter of workers in the state who died from opioid-related overdoses between 2011 and...
View ArticleAmazon Mulling Health Clinics for Seattle Employees
Amazon is considering opening its own primary health care clinics for employees at its Seattle headquarters, CNBC reported on Thursday, becoming the latest in a series of major US companies pursuing...
View ArticleOhio Program to Help Employers Manage Workers in Recovery from Addiction
The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation is launching a pilot program next month in Montgomery, Ross and Scioto counties “to support employers willing to hire workers struggling to overcome an addiction...
View ArticleFlu Season Poised to Cost US Employers Billions Again This Year
The flu season is upon us in the northern hemisphere, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting this week that the annual spike in influenza cases was just starting (later than...
View ArticleTwo Studies Suggest Incentives May Not Drive Participation in Wellness Programs
A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and Harvard, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, sheds new light on the impact on increasingly popular...
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