BENEFITS OF CORPORATE WELLNESS

CORPORATEWELLNESS?

Three out of five employers (61%) offer a corporate wellness program1.

Why? Because when properly integrated, a corporate wellness program

can improve employee health and productivity, and contain health care

costs. Plus, corporate wellness is proven to help retain top performers.

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EMPLOYER PAINS

Poor employee health

Health care costs5

Productivity losses6

Retention7

IMPACT OF MAJOREMPLOYEE HEALTH RISKS

1 IN 2 ADULTS

2 OUT OF 3 ADULTS

HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH AT LEAST

ONE CHRONIC DISEASE2

ARE OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE3

49%

25-30%

employees likely to leaveand look for a new job this year

PER YEAR

PER YEAR

$225.8BILLION

cost employers

Cost employers

Health-related productivity losses

$1685per employee 1685

one thousand six hundred eighty-five dollars

Employee Jan. 1

ObesityCigarette smokingDiabetes

WHY

Obesity2.1.

$

Obese cost

$1,850–$5,500more in healthcare costs thannormal-weightindividuals10

$4.3 billion:Annual losses to businesses because of obesity-related job absenteeism11

Reduced costs and absenteeism14

Impact on retention

ROI

$ $

30%

Meta-analysis shows corporate

wellness on average reduced

sick leave absenteeism by

Workers’ compensation and disability management

claims costs by

Health care costs by

28% 26%

Average ROI of corporate wellness15:

$3.27 for every $1 spent =$ $1$1 $ $1$1 $ $1$1 $ $1$1

Employees who participate in wellness programs are more likely to be loyal to their employer16

73% 62% 62%Participants believe

their company is very loyal to them

Participants feel very loyal to their company

Participants say benefits are an important reason

they stay at theircurrent company

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3.Diabetes

Diabetes accounts for:

VS.

Employee with diabetescosts, on average,

$13,243 annually13

Employee withoutdiabetes averages

$2,560 annually13

Tobacco

Smoker

Smokers miss moredays per year8

6.2days

Non-smokerdays3.9

DID YOU KNOW?Many health care providers struggle to address risks, such as obesity4

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines recommend checking all patients to determine if they’re obese; however: o Research shows when doctors perceive an obese patient to be smaller than themselves, only 11% discuss weight loss with the patient

of medical costs per year are spent on employees with major risk factors such as:

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Sources:1. Business Insurance, http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20120625/NEWS03/120629945?tags=|307|74|305|339|257 2. Health Affairs, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/28/1/64.full 3. Institute of Medicine, http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Accelerating-Progress-in-Obe-sity-Prevention/Infographic.aspx 4. Wall Street Journal Health Blog, http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/01/30/overweight-doc-tors-less-likely-to-discuss-weight-loss-with-patients/ 5. National Business Group on Health, www.businessgrouphealth.org 6. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14665809 7. Employee Benefit News, http://eba.benefitnews.com/news/benefits-employees-employers-workers-ancillary-offerings-coverage-2725242-1.html 8. Tobacco Control, http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/10/3/233.abstract 9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/implementation/topics/tobacco-use.html 10. Occupational Health & Safety, http://ohsonline.com/articles/2012/03/13/obese-work-ers-have-higher-health-care-costs-than-smokers-study-says.aspx 11. Institute of Medicine, http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2012/Accelerating-Progress- in-Obesity-Prevention.aspx 12. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/factsheets/atwork.htm 13. Diabetes Care, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12610059 14. American Journal of Health Promotion, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1150201215. Health Affairs, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2010/01/14/hlthaff.2009.0626.abstract 16. Metlife, http://www.healthplanson-line.com/blog/metlifes-9th-annual-study-of-employee-benefits-trends/

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Annual cost toemployers:

$190.2 billion11{ {Annual cost toemployers:$96 billion11{ {

• 15 million work days absent12

• 120 million work days with reduced performance12

• 107 million work days lost due to unemployment disability12

Annual cost to employers:$174 billion

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