Eve Xia - Health & Wellness

A lot! And these costs are rising. And the cost driver is disease , chronic disease to be specific  such as heart ,diabetes, back problems, arthritis, depression and stress. And one last bit of bad news is that these chronic diseases are showing no signs...

Yet  few  organizations report that they evaluate their wellness programs regularly. Without the scrutiny of evaluation and the measurement of outcomes, it is not possible to determine if program  goals and  Return on Investment ( ROI) are achieved.
So, what is measurement and evaluation?  Put simply , a program is evaluated through the measurement of identified goals or objectives. Common measurement outcomes include  employee  participation, engagement, satisfaction, improvements in health , ROI...

First and foremost I should stress that there is no organization that implemented a robust workplace wellness and measured outcome that  did not report a positive Return on Investment ( ROI)!
The key word  here is ‘ measurement’. Many organizations implement wellness for their employees but often  they either do not include a  measurement component  at all or they include some form of partial measurement. More on this at the next blog....

The short answer is because an unwell workplace is costly and less productive. And there is a high prevalence of poor health among employees in developed countries throughout the world. Increasing risk factors such as physical inactivity, stress, smoking...