Welcome to the inaugural issue of mspWellness, a monthly newsletter providing ideas, tips and insights about creating a healthier, happier workplace.
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Find out how your company can receive free tools, resources and technical assistance to help assess, plan and implement a workplace wellness plan custom-designed for your location. Check out
www.mspwellness.com
for more information.
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Why should you care about workplace wellness?
Simply put, workplace wellness programs are good for business. Research has shown that healthy work environments and encouraging healthy behaviors pays off.
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For every $1 invested in workplace wellness, $6 is saved on
medical and absenteeism costs.
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Even the smallest changes to policies and environment can have a huge impact on employee health and satisfaction, and improve your bottom line.
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Good Morning Minneapolis: Workplace Wellness
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Companies of all sizes are choosing to invest in employee wellness programs. Some are making environmental changes, others are developing internal policies or creating healthy living campaigns. What works the best? At the next Good Morning Minneapolis, we’ll discuss the tactics and strategies available to employers that could potentially improve employee productivity, lower health care costs and improve talent retention.
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Featured Workplace Wellness Resources
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Move Minneapolis
promotes sustainable transportation – transit, carpooling, car-sharing, bicycle commuting, walking and telework – through an outreach and education program that targets downtown Minneapolis employers, workers, and residents.
Move Minneapolis provides commuter orientation to new employees, advises companies on pre-tax-transportation benefits, registers carpools and MnPASS transponders, provides transit trip planning, promotes bicycle commuting and bike locker rental. For more information:
www.moveminneapolis.org
or contact:
Bill@moveminneapolis.org
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Minnesota Health Action Group Employer Benefits Survey
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The Minnesota Health Action Group Employer Benefits Survey provides comprehensive health plan benefit benchmarks from Minnesota employers. Now in its eighth year, this custom Survey offers invaluable strategic and tactical plan design details, along with insight into health plan vendors, prescription drug trends (with an emphasis on specialty pharmacy), wellness programs, market innovations, and more. The confidential and free Survey reflects the input of Action Group members and digs deep into what is and isn’t working for Minnesota employers. Check it out
here
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From the
Harvard Business Review
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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works,
By Hector De La Torre and Ron Goetzel, Ph.D.
R
ead the full article
here
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This partnership is made possible by the Minnesota Department of Health’s Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) and Community Wellness Grant, funding that serves as a powerful catalyst for creating healthier communities. Through SHIP, the Minneapolis Health Department partners with schools, neighborhoods, worksites, and clinics to make sustainable community driven changes that help everyone eat healthy, be active, and live tobacco free.
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1 Baicker, K, Cutler, D, Song, Z. Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings. Health Affairs 29, no.2 (2010):304-311.
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