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In promoting wellness, employers are acknowledging the high price of ignoring the bad habits of workers. Unchecked appetites can contribute to absenteeism in the short term and chronic disease in the long term. But promoting health can boost morale today and can help to control costs tomorrow.
http://www.mercyhealthplans.com

Packaging-Online

"These things encourage wellness," Fienning says. "When I hear about some of the things other employers in the corrugated box industry are doing, I think our company has lower healthcare costs overall because of our wellness programs. These probably cost $20-25,000 a year. Even when you add in the cost of healthcare I still think we're ahead of the game."
http://www.packaging-online.com/paperboardpackaging/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=317072

The Signal

Businesses may not be required by law to provide health programs for their employees, but according to Leah Cox, it just makes sense to do so.

Cox is the director of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness and has made it her mission to inspire workplaces to provide wellness policies for their employees.

"We look at employee health as a bottom line advantage for employers," Cox said. "It's in the employer's interests to provide a place where employees want to go to work, where healthy foods are available and where they can get up and stretch and move throughout the day."

Many businesses have already climbed onto the health and wellness bandwagon and have created programs for employees.
http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=9488

University of Michigan

Programs designed to help employees quit smoking, lower stress or lose weight have long been a staple of work site health promotion. Reducing health risks has seemed to be the key to containing health care costs.
http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/May03/r053003b.html

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