How to build effective wellness programs
Corporate wellness initiatives have moved beyond simply providing discounts to gyms and offering healthy options in the cafeteria.
- January 3, 2012 September 13, 2019
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Corporate wellness initiatives have moved beyond simply providing discounts to gyms and offering healthy options in the cafeteria.
I got into this industry, as most people do, by accident,” admits Toronto-based Keith Ambachtsheer, who today is well known for his ideas on pension governance and how to reform the system.
“No one has invented the perfect way to manage large pools of money,” says Rick Abbott, the former director of investments for the Winnipeg Civic Employees’ Benefits Program. In June 2010, he retired as director after 18 years in the role and 40 years as an investment manager. “You can’t have a perfect strategy because […]
For more than 10 years, Karen Liberman was crippled by a clinical depression so severe that she would sometimes spend 24 hours crying. “I was barely surviving it, yet I continued to work the whole time I was desperately ill,” she recalls. In the summer of 1997, Liberman was hospitalized by her psychiatrist for 48 […]
Given the past 18 months, it’s no surprise healthcare budgets haven’t increased. Employers are struggling to figure out how to stretch their limited resources to keep their employees healthy and productive. Working Well invited 11 experts to a round-table discussion to share their thoughts on how employers are facing these challenges. More specifically, they discussed […]
More than six years ago, the HR team at Cogsdale Corp. noticed that its employees’ health and benefits claims were less than the premiums being paid. “Money was just being thrown away,” says Cogsdale’s HR manager, Denise Bulger, in Charlottetown. The company turned to its benefits consultant to come up with a change and ended […]
In Newfoundland and Labrador, about 40% of the 280 municipalities offer healthcare benefits to their employees, and only 20% offer any type of retirement or pension benefit. Terry Taylor knows this needs to change. He’s the general manager of the Newfoundland & Labrador Municipal Employee Benefits Inc., which is also known as Trio Benefits. “Within […]
Over half of Canadians don’t have a tax-free savings account (TFSA), according to a recent online poll from Angus Reid Public Opinion commissioned by ING Direct. TFSAs allow Canadians to put away $5,000 a year without taxation and they came into effect in 2009. More than half (52%) of those who haven’t opened an […]
There was a time—not too long ago—when people could smoke on planes. Or when it seemed true that diners in the non-smoking section of a restaurant were not affected by the smoke a few tables away. Today, many of us smile at the naiveté of those old habits. In the past decade, studies have repeatedly […]
The evolving role of pharmacists—and what that means for drug plan costs—was the topic on the minds of most attendees at the annual Face to Face: Drug Plan Management Forum on Dec. 1, 2009. Dennis Darby, chief executive officer for the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association, explained that under Bill 179 Ontario pharmacists would soon be able […]