Employers may (and do) think they’re doing well by their employees with health and well-being strategies they bring into the workplace, but employees? Not so much. In fact, the majority say those initiatives don’t meet their needs.
Willis Towers Watson research finds that while 56 percent of employers believe their current health and well-being programs are working to encourage employees to live a healthier lifestyle, according to the Willis Towers Watson 2017 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey, only 32 percent of employees agree with them.
In fact, with regard to well-being initiatives specifically, 61 percent of employees say their employers’ programs don’t meet their needs. Employers do a little better when it comes to core medical plans meeting employee needs, with 81 percent of employers believing they do, compared with 66 percent of employees.
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