Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. If not addressed and taken care of properly can lead to behavioral, emotional, physical, and cognitive health implications. According to the Gallop Orginization, 26% of all Americans fear that they’ll lose their jobs in the coming year, 26% fear that they will have their wages or their hours cut, and 36% fear that their benefits will be cut.

Those are a lot of worries employees are taking on, so the question is, can corporations help eliminate some of these stresses? Good news, they can, and many of them currently do have different programs to help cope with everyday stresses. Some examples of offerings are in-house wellness centers, so workers can have consultations with medical professionals to monitor their stress issues and work on them. These wellness centers also offer massages, and yoga classes to help reduce some of these pressures employees are facing.

Companies like American Online, Google, Apple, Ford, and Monsanto are using mediation in the workplace. This method will improve worker productivity by helping their workforce reduce stress by taking a time out for themselves. The way they do this is to gather a group of employees for 25 minutes, shut off all the lights and focus on the prompt provided such as breathing. Overall, doing this will have workers feeling more centered and able to deal with their stress. All of these approaches used, are meant to help employees deal with their issues and reduce tension without increasing human resource costs. A happy workforce only leads to higher productivity and less costs to companies, overcoming stress is a win-win situation for everyone!

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Many years ago, the issues regarding overweight adults and children were ones that were rarely addressed. This is because it didn’t use to be an issue. There have been many drastic changes within our country that directly affect this current widespread concern. Obesity is now one of people’s biggest enemies; 67% of all adults who fall into this category are struggling to overcome it, and the ones who aren’t work hard at preventing it. Mentioned in previous posts such as Cutting Weight Cuts Health Care Costs, this epidemic is something that should be discussed regularly, and highly stressed due to the affects it has in people’s lives.

Roughly 93 billion in obesity, 27 billion in diabetes, 85 billion in heart disease, and 32 billion in hypertension are the costs associated with these diseases. If seeing these numbers isn’t enough to boggle minds, knowing that 70% of all health care costs are preventable will. An easy way corporations can help lower these high numbers is implementing a gym in their corporate wellness program. Health clubs around the country offer a wide range of innovative fitness programs including yoga, pilates, cycling, swimming, free weights, and group exercise.

 Fortunately, there are many ways to beat these diseases, now it’s the responsibility of companies to sponsor affective corporate wellness programs, and the people within them to take advantage of the opportunities given to sustain their wellness.

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The market for health monitoring technology is on the rise, causing a demand for the latest and greatest stylish gear. There are many options becoming available to the public, it’s all about finding the one that is best fit for the consumer. In this instance, a consumer based audience is being targeted, perhaps there is a future in linking these technologies to corporate wellness programs. As previously mentioned in the Nike FuelBand article, technology that tracks your health and fitness while on the go is now a popular trend that many active buyers are taking advantage of.

Another monitoring band that is making its way into the health tracking world is the Basis. This new multi-purpose invention can do various tasks with its 3D accelerometer, such as measuring your body’s temperature and galvanic skin response. It can also measure your heart rate, blood flow, sleeping patterns, and is a calorie tracker.

A useful feature of Basis is its ability to easily connect to the Internet. All of the stats are automatically uploaded onto the consumer’s dashboard to make tracking simple and user friendly, along with allowing them to learn about their overall wellness. Basis is just one of the many fitness tracking technologies on the rise, a small, yet trendy investment to better health might be worth looking into!

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Maintaining health and wellness can be an everyday struggle, which makes it difficult for people to stick to their goals. Finding new ways to surpass these speed bumps is key to a healthier world. HealthRally, a social health-tech company has an inspiring platform to do so. They are a company that motivates individuals, and their friends and family to set fitness goals, and achieve them through the support of their loved ones.

  Along with setting fitness goals, participants choose a reward to work towards, and if they reach their goal they win in both senses.

Funding is done through sponsorships of others, which incorporates a fun and social atmosphere as well. Studies show, financial incentives make reaching a goal 5 times more likely. A similar example of this is getting sponsored to run a 5k, but HealthRally is a more personalized challenge to meet a variety of goals. With the support of others financially and emotionally this system makes attaining a healthy lifestyle easy.

This is a great way to get people to become active at a consumer level, but what if this could be used to create a tailored program for employees? As mentioned before in our recent post, incentives are a major contributor in providing a successful wellness programs. Corporate wellness programs are chosen by companies and customized to have the most participation by employees. Through the use of technology, companies could use this fundraising approach so that personnel can set goals for themselves or other co-workers and gain the support from their corporation. Using this approach makes things fun for employees to reach their fitness goals in and out of the workplace.

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