Employee wellness needs to move from an HR initiative to a true business imperative, speakers at the NBGH conference on Health, Productivity and Human Capital in Boston said this week.
Employee benefits don't have to stop at insurance or 401(k) plans--sometimes the simplest things can make employees want to work for your organization. Here are 4 ideas to get you thinking.
Raising both awareness and wellness is how L.L. Bean is fighting obesity among employees. Here are 9 lessons learned from the company's pilot obesity program.
There is good and bad news about the state of obesity in the United States. The good? Obesity rates have essentially remained steady over the past year. The bad? They are still very, very high.
If you want to make some cold, hard cash, you may want to consider going into the medical field. Skilled health care professions dominate the list of the highest paying jobs from CareerCast.
Netflix made headlines a few weeks back when it announced unlimited, paid paternity and maternity leave for its employees during the first year after birth or adoption.
Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act can say the law is controlling health insurance costs all they want. But it seems employers do not agree.
Netflixs recent announcement of unlimited parental leave was hailed as a revolution in workplace benefits. Call me cynical, but Im not buying it.
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