Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged in their work when their employers make wellness a priority, according to a white paper from Right Management, a subsidiary of Manpower Inc. The study also found that:
- An organization is four times more likely to lose talent if its employees have an unfavorable view of its wellness efforts.
- When wellness is a priority, employees are 3.5 times more likely to say they are being encouraged to be creative and innovative.
“The strongest organizations are going to be the ones that attract, engage and retain top talent,” says David Arkless, Manpower’s president of corporate and government affairs. “Wellness in the workplace is central to an organization’s survival. Companies, governments and the like will need to revisit their strategies to ensure that workplace wellness is woven into their plans, as the organizations that don’t will struggle to remain competitive.”
The white paper, “The Wellness Imperative: Creating More Effective Organizations,” is available here.
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Posted by: Cathi W | March 18, 2010 2:47 PM
Wellness benefits are overlooked and many free programs are available and enrollees do not even know about them. However I do work with an associaition health plan and getting 170 different compnaies ot engage in wellness is tough.
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Posted by: vpascalejr | February 3, 2010 11:54 AM
I am sure that wellness is important and perhaps critical to organizational health. But I find it difficult to believe that employees actually leave companies because of lacking wellness initiatives. They may say that, but the relationship with their superior is probably more critical.
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