Employees wellness program is a necessary one. This program should be ulitized properly.
Steven - 16 years ago
We have a program, but i consider it slightly evasive as they require a physical with your doctor. the information is not viewable by the employer, but it makes me uneasy because its a slippery slope. However, they don't provide gym memberships or a cafeteria that serves anything healthy. The program is more a less a sham to collect some sort of health information on the employees so they can predict health benefits costs.
Travlnbard - 16 years ago
We have an 8-week fitness program/competition. If you meet the competition goal the company pays $40 per month toward a fitness club or Weight Watchers. If you don't want to join something you can get up to $100 of prizes for meeting the goals. During the 8-weeks we generally have a cooking class, a specialized fitness class (yoga, tai chi, etc) and a big kick-off. This year we had an hour olympics followed by a healthy lunch. T-shirts were given to everyone. This year almost all of our 70 employees signed up for the free program.
klz - 16 years ago
We get $60 a year to put into whatever form of wellness we wish. But the only exercise we can do on the job is walk during break or lunch - but we have to be sure not to fall on the property, for that could cause them to shut down my daily walks. No place or time is offered for exercise, no classes, no healthy snack foods in the machines.
klz - 16 years ago
My employer offers a program, but the person they hired to provide the advice for diet and exercise is completely inflexible. If you can't run, then you should anyway. (No matter what the doctor has told you.) He is unable to conceive of people who can't do what he insists they do. The staff members who are vegetarian he totally blew off - insisted that there was nothing healthy about their diet.
He tried to sign everyone up for a marathon, never mind that most of the staff had never run, or could not run, or was obese - often morbidly so. He fails to understand that we would all gain from following baby steps, insisted on complete change.
He continually insisted that I had high blood pressure - failing to take into account that I had just climbed 3 flights of stairs to get my pressure measured, and actually have below normal blood pressure. He could not accept that perhaps he was measuring incorrectly.
I actually found myself rebelling from his rigidity and gaining weight, when before he arrived, I had been following a diet and exercise program of my own design. This year, I will not attend the programs. I have a doctor who can give me much better advice and tailor this advice to my needs, willingness, and ability.
keng - 16 years ago
well, they offer one but it doesn't cost any less than a gym....so i bike.
CeeLee - 16 years ago
RJ, Is your company hiring???? I'll be no one ever leaves!
My company has a pretty good wellness plan. Gym club reimbursement, 80/20 health care, free diet and wellness web-based tools...benefits like this are what you make of them. They could offer personal trainers to everyone, but if you don't utilize the services, you're not going to reap the rewards.
RJ - 16 years ago
Wellness
Gyms at every work site usually with a dietitian and physical trainers.
Time allowed during the work day to use gym.
Free medical and dental.
Up to three years of unpaid sabbatical with guaranteed job upon return.
Free undergraduate and graduate education.
30 days of paid vacation a year.
Three weeks of Father maternity leave.
Employees wellness program is a necessary one. This program should be ulitized properly.
We have a program, but i consider it slightly evasive as they require a physical with your doctor. the information is not viewable by the employer, but it makes me uneasy because its a slippery slope. However, they don't provide gym memberships or a cafeteria that serves anything healthy. The program is more a less a sham to collect some sort of health information on the employees so they can predict health benefits costs.
We have an 8-week fitness program/competition. If you meet the competition goal the company pays $40 per month toward a fitness club or Weight Watchers. If you don't want to join something you can get up to $100 of prizes for meeting the goals. During the 8-weeks we generally have a cooking class, a specialized fitness class (yoga, tai chi, etc) and a big kick-off. This year we had an hour olympics followed by a healthy lunch. T-shirts were given to everyone. This year almost all of our 70 employees signed up for the free program.
We get $60 a year to put into whatever form of wellness we wish. But the only exercise we can do on the job is walk during break or lunch - but we have to be sure not to fall on the property, for that could cause them to shut down my daily walks. No place or time is offered for exercise, no classes, no healthy snack foods in the machines.
My employer offers a program, but the person they hired to provide the advice for diet and exercise is completely inflexible. If you can't run, then you should anyway. (No matter what the doctor has told you.) He is unable to conceive of people who can't do what he insists they do. The staff members who are vegetarian he totally blew off - insisted that there was nothing healthy about their diet.
He tried to sign everyone up for a marathon, never mind that most of the staff had never run, or could not run, or was obese - often morbidly so. He fails to understand that we would all gain from following baby steps, insisted on complete change.
He continually insisted that I had high blood pressure - failing to take into account that I had just climbed 3 flights of stairs to get my pressure measured, and actually have below normal blood pressure. He could not accept that perhaps he was measuring incorrectly.
I actually found myself rebelling from his rigidity and gaining weight, when before he arrived, I had been following a diet and exercise program of my own design. This year, I will not attend the programs. I have a doctor who can give me much better advice and tailor this advice to my needs, willingness, and ability.
well, they offer one but it doesn't cost any less than a gym....so i bike.
RJ, Is your company hiring???? I'll be no one ever leaves!
My company has a pretty good wellness plan. Gym club reimbursement, 80/20 health care, free diet and wellness web-based tools...benefits like this are what you make of them. They could offer personal trainers to everyone, but if you don't utilize the services, you're not going to reap the rewards.
Wellness
Gyms at every work site usually with a dietitian and physical trainers.
Time allowed during the work day to use gym.
Free medical and dental.
Up to three years of unpaid sabbatical with guaranteed job upon return.
Free undergraduate and graduate education.
30 days of paid vacation a year.
Three weeks of Father maternity leave.
Those are just a couple off the top of my head.
what about no..because it's not helpful