Common sense suggests that sprawling out on the sofa andbinge-watching “The Walking Dead” while plowing through endlessbags of potato chips and super-sized, sugar-laden sodas has got tobe less healthy than, say, knocking off a couple of miles on atreadmill. For administrators of corporate wellness programs,however, proving the link between good health and lower corporatemedical bills has proved, well, elusive.
Which is a problem, because according to a report published lastyear by the RAND Corp.—“The Workplace Wellness ProgramsStudy”—slightly more than half of U.S. companies with more than 50employees offer workers some sort of wellness program. And whilemost of these companies were certain that their wellness plans“reduced medical costs, absenteeism and health-related productivitylosses,” only about half the organizations had ever formallyevaluated their wellness plans. Of those that had, only 2 percentreported actual cost savings.
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