Employee Health and Wellness

Health and Wellness Challenges Are Popping Up Everywhere

Health and Wellness Challenges are definitely hot right now and they are encouraging more and more people to get healthy and live better. Whether it is a city or a school or a social group or even a whole state, competitive spirits are being ignited by the challenge to be the healthiest team. The Health and Wellness Challenges are usually about a six months to a year in length and they are made up of several teams, these teams all get points for physical activity, selecting healthy foods, and just making better life and health choices overall.

The best part about Health and Wellness Challenges is even though there really is only way “real” winner; everyone that participates in the challenge is a life winner.

Health and Wellness Challenges provides Incentive to Get Healthy

Establishing a Health and Wellness Challenges in your office is a great way to get employees to participate in your established Employee Health and Wellness Initiative. Have employees form teams and receive points for everything from attending a Employee Health and Wellness Fair to getting a health risk assessment to beginning an physical activity regimen. At the end of the year, the teams will win prizes based on the number of points they have accumulated.

Health and Wellness Challenges improve Corporate Health

Not only will Health and Wellness Challenges improve the health of your employees, it will improve the overall health of the corporation by providing benefits such as reduced injuries, reduced frequency of worker’s comp, reduced medical care costs, better staff member attendance, and better corporate morale.

Like we said earlier, everyone is a winner in a Health and Wellness Challenges!