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Thursday, April 18. 2019

Workplace Wellness programs

A major study from 160 worksites (28,000 employees) was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this month.


The results demonstrated no measurable effects on health, fitness, medical care expenditures, or employment after 18 months. 



Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss at 15:13 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Surprising exactly no one.

Next, let's do Diversity Training.
#1 Phidippus on 2019-04-18 17:24 (Reply)
I said this as Wellness began at my (state gov't) worksite a decade ago. Just pissin' into the wind, naturally. No one listened, as they wanted something else to be true.

If they could next go after the questionnaires your health insurance company thinks uncovers where your risk areas are I would feel even more vindicated. This is the same mentality that has convinced health professionals - or someone behind them, prodding them - to ask if you have guns in the home, as if this tells them something. It is a misunderstanding of correlation to think so, but that doesn't stop them.
#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-04-18 17:26 (Reply)
About 35 years ago I shared rooms in Korea with a Coast Guard LCDR who spent the next 60 days working on his officer fitness report and those of the other 5 Coast Guard officers working with us and all of it oriented to use every single space in the remarks column to nominate said officers for sainthood and the most important block of all was work/life balance. It was a hoot I enjoyed as I consumed more HITE and NEX as he labored into the night on his laptop trying to get the last sentence to fill the last space in the format.
#3 Curtis on 2019-04-18 20:53 (Reply)

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