Workers Will Pay for Weight Loss Help.
Looking for incentives to get overweight staff to buy into a wellness program? A recent research study suggests many staff are even willing to pay much â.” or all â.” of the cost themselves.
Roughly 35 percent of firms with health promotion programs focus on providing staff with convenient access to weight reduction resources.
A poll of 1,352 staff by the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity Alliance found that many individuals would gladly chip in for the cost of the wellness program when they believed it’d help them lose weight. What staff want -
o confidential support and counseling
o Access to a professional nutritionist or fitness trainer, and
o on-site exercise programs.
Until lately, only large corporations were able offer such wellness programs as part of their wellness benefits. But the fastest growth of these wellness 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. Ordinarily, personnel pay up to about 25 percent of the cost. But some plans are fully employee paid.