div > div.group > p:first-child"> For the tens of millions of American workers now enrolled in workplace wellness programs offered by four out of five large employers, it may be time to slow the treadmill.
The wellness program did change health behaviors and awareness, but it did not result in measurable improvements in important physical health outcomes."You can read that optimistically. The first step has to be paying more attention and having the information, capacity and ability to pay more attention to health behaviors," Baicker said."But is that sufficient to reduce blood pressure or improve diabetes? We don't have evidence that it does.
The BJ's study found that employee absenteeism, performance reviews and tenure did not improve as a result of participation in the wellness program. Both Song and Baicker had worked on some of that earlier research and wanted to pursue a more rigorous, randomized trial because of the limitations they knew existed in the data.
A BJ's spokeswoman wrote in an email,"We're committed to the health and wellness of our Team Members. We'll use the results of this study to help inform programs moving forward.
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That’s because our 10 min breaks are bathroom breaks, unable to exercise during a workday except at lunchtime. And most jobs don’t have an area even to walk around in safely.
Surprise! Sitting on ass all day as service industry jobs leads to health issues. Who would have thought lack of activity would be detrimental. 🤔
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