Implementing and Launching a Wellness Program
Workplace Wellness Efforts Are At An All-Time High
It has been a difficult year for everyone, and nowhere is that more evident than in the workplace. Not only have physical office spaces transformed for millions of employees around the world as they adapt to working from home, but stress and isolation are also increasing. For large, midsize, and small companies alike, the old way of doing corporate wellness programs just isn’t working in this new reality.
The idea of corporate wellness has evolved over the past 40 years from an obscure perk at a few companies—Johnson & Johnson1 is often considered one of the first companies to offer a full wellness program when it launched “Live for Life” in 1979—to something that 84% of companies offer in one way or another,2 according to a 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation report.