Businesses are looking for innovative ways to improve employee engagement and productivity. Offering employee wellness programs is a proven way to enhance employee health, engagement, and productivity, all reflecting on better business ROI and workplace culture. A well-planned corporate wellness program will help you achieve all these, while reducing employee healthcare costs.
A wellness program whose outcomes can be accessed easily is more likely to grab the attention of the workforce, and also provide beneficial insights into the employee health conditions for employees and employers. That is why it is essential to start your employee wellness program with an HRA and biometric screening.
“A Willis Health and Productivity Survey showed that almost 74% of employers in the US include biometric screenings as a vital part of their workplace wellness programs.”
Biometric Screenings – What and Why?
Having useful insights at hand before starting the wellness program can help in designing the right challenges, activities, and other modules for positive result-oriented outcomes. Each employee can have specific health conditions, individual capabilities, and interests, different from that of their colleagues. A little research about your employees at the start can be a great employee engagement strategy and fruitful for the wellness program’s success.
Biometric Screenings at the start of the program and at regular intervals can give a lot of information about the underlying health issues of employees, and also motivate them to participate and engage well.
CDC has defined Biometric Screenings as on-site health tests to assess health risks, based on health parameters like BMI, blood pressure, blood glucose, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels.
Regular health screenings at the workplace can give a broad picture of the employee health status and answers to other queries like –
- What are the most common health issues of your workforce?
- Which wellness program modules are best suitable to build workplace wellness?
- Is the existing wellness program giving the desired outcomes and what is its impact?
A CDC report revealed that almost 70% of the US healthcare expenses are spent towards treating chronic health issues like diabetes, hypertension, other cardiovascular issues, and obesity.
By getting regular biometric screenings at the start and through your employee wellness programs can help in the early detection of these conditions or other underlying risks in your workforce. Based on the outcomes, the wellness program can be designed to cater to the specific wellness needs of the employees.
For example, if the biometric screenings indicate that a majority of your workforce have hypertension or are at a high-risk of acquiring it, you can build your wellness program to focus on initiatives that deal with regulating the blood pressure, including the nutrition, exercise, stress, and lifestyle habits.
With factual baseline data at hand, you can evaluate and plan your corporate wellness programs efficiently to boost employee engagement, and morale, while creating a positive workplace culture of health. By comparing the screening outcomes from the previous and latest tests, you can also evaluate the business ROI, the influence of the wellbeing programs on the healthcare costs and overall organizational productivity.
At Wellness360, we partner and work with reputed screening vendors across the corporate wellness market to bring authentic biometric screenings for your workforce and genuine results that will help you craft the best-suitable wellness program. Our pre-defined programs and challenges focus on various holistic wellness dimensions, making it easier for you to choose the one that fits your employee wellness demands.
You can decide the frequency of the screenings for your workforce, and after it is done, you can access the reports easily from our online portal.