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# Top 10 Things Employers Need to Know About Wellness

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**1. Corporate Wellness, not Employee Wellness.** In the end, it’s all about culture. Wellness must be integrated into the business, and its objectives, to be successful. 

**2. Pecking order matters.** It’s a fact, employees are influenced by their leaders. If corporate wellness is going to succeed, there must be leadership and managerial support across the business.

 

**3. It’s not physical.** Wellness is about the total person. It must extend beyond physical activity and nutrition into preventive care, finances, health literacy, consumerism, and more. 

 

**4. Accountability is the keyword.** The company and employee must both be accountable for the efforts involved. Organizations should invest in resources to enable the employee to make informed healthcare decisions.

 

**5. The easy choice.** Policies that make available healthy food options, provide opportunities to be physically active during the work day, and drive preventive screenings make it easier for an employee to make a healthy choice.

 

**6. Size matters.** Corporate wellness is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Data analytics and health informatics should be at the core of strategy development.

 

**7. Your customer.** Treat your employees like your customers — know their needs, survey them, and then customize to them so that overall program viability and success is sustainable.

 

**8. Social support.** Support from co-workers, family members, and the community influence the effectiveness of behavior change and should be integrated into the overall strategy. 

 

**9. One piece of the pie.** Wellness vendors are not the wellness program, they are only one component of many that makes up a successful corporate wellness strategy.

 

**10.** **Productivity & Profitability.** Wellness and safety will go hand-in-hand working towards a common goal: to protect employee health and improve organizational productivity and profitability. 

 

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 Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | Categories: [Wellness](https://blog.alliantbenefits.com/blog/tag/wellness)

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