As global competition continues to rise, employers areincreasingly finding the importance in a healthy and productivework force. Employees' health has both a direct and indirect impacton an employer's bottom line, and to battle these costs, moreemployers are focusing on wellness programs, according to ChangeAgent Work Group.
In fact, in a recent CAWG webinar on wellness, KateKohn-Parrott, president and CEO of Greater Detroit Area HealthCouncil, noted that employees' lifestyles made a huge impact on anemployer's financial situation because many of the diseasessuffered by the population, such as diabetes, are directly relatedto poor health decisions.
“We recognized very quickly that the lifestyles our employeesled were driving a lot of our costs and that we had a variety ofcontrollable lifestyle conditions,” Kohn-Parrott said.
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