Tag Archive For "wellness"
How can preventative benefits boost employee wellness?
Employers are increasingly focusing on bolstering employee health and wellbeing; this is not a surprise, especially when considering its far-reaching benefits for staff engagement and productivity. While group medical insurance remains a central part of employee benefits packages, the pendulum is swinging towards employee wellness with a strong emphasis on preventative benefits. Today’s Pacific Prime …
Tackling presenteeism at the workplace with employee benefits
The cost of absenteeism is widely known. In fact, unscheduled absenteeism can conservatively cost businesses USD 2,650 for every salaried employee per year. It’s the more camouflaged counterpart, however, that is harder to quantify. According to CIPD research, presenteeism costs twice that of absenteeism. Now, you might be asking, “But what exactly is presenteeism?”, and, …
Employee medical insurance: Why is health insurance important?
With so many flashy, new types of wellness benefits on the rise in the industry, it can be easy to forget about the more common perks like employee medical insurance. Employer provided health coverage has become the standard foundation benefit for the platform of many companies. It could even be true that younger generations won’t …
Creating a wellness program: key questions for all businesses
Wellness programs continue to be the focus of many HR and company benefit discussions these days, and for good reason! A growing number of surveys have indicated that there are a lot of benefits attributed to supporting the health and wellbeing of staff. Employer provided health insurance continues to be the most popular employee benefit …
Valuing employees key to managing staff retention: Using benefits to show you care
Managing for employee retention takes some strategic thinking and sincere actions to ensure that your staff remain committed to championing your company’s cause. In today’s uncertain economic climate, efforts to re-engage and keep your staff motivated are challenged by the fact that you, like many businesses, might be planning to keep budgets for raises relatively …
Benefits of Living a Mediterranean Lifestyle
The global economic crisis, massive young worker unemployment rates, instability in the Eurozone, soaring fuel costs, huge national debt, and other social woes… ugh! And that’s just on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea. To the east and south there is political unrest, drought, financial difficulties and more. Why would anyone ever venture over …
Big Love: Unconventional Tips for a Healthy Heart
Your heart is far bigger than you think it is; bigger than a mechanical pump the size of a fist. Your heart is also the veins and the arteries that run through your whole body. It isn’t just in your chest. Your might say that your heart is your body. It’s the most important thing …
8 Tips to Stay Healthy with a Busy Lifestyle
Are you a busy, serial multi-tasker? If so, it’s likely your own health is way down on your list of priorities. We urge you to take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to sit down, relax and focus on our ‘8 tips to stay healthy with a busy lifestyle’. Because everything starts with a ‘ME’. 1. …
New Year, New You?
Finding it impossible to shed the belly bulge? With many of us hitting the gym in earnest following the holiday season, we take a look at what your diet and lifestyle might be saying about you, and finding that appearances can be deceptive. We’re living longer and WHO figures show that overall blood pressure and …
