Wellness programs help employees — and their companies
Workers reported better health while their organizations saw the benefits.
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Workers reported better health while their organizations saw the benefits.
Workers reported better health while their organizations saw the benefits.Most Americans now have one or more chronic health conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety or depression, and more than half of Americans have multiple conditions. That adds thousands of dollars — sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars — per employee perWorkers reported better health while their organizations saw the benefits.Most Americans now have one or more chronic health conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety or depression, and more than half of America...
Christina Stanton was on a bike ride with a friend last August when she couldn’t pedal another inch. “I got off and I laid in the grass,” she says. Stanton, 51, of New York City, was experiencing “incredible fatigue,” she recalls, the remnants of a COVID infection that began for her in March 2020 and never stopped. “It was right outside of this nasty industrial area. I could tell it scared [my friend] that I was doing that, laying in some gross grass behind an old nasty warehouse, because, literally, I couldn’t go.” Lisa Emrich, a total stranger to Stanton, says she understand...
Caitlin Houston of Wallingford, CT, thought it was bad allergies when she started feeling sick last spring. In Las Vegas, Loleta Barrion had symptoms that at first felt like a cold or maybe the flu—crushing headaches, problems breathing—before realizing something more serious was going on. A laundry list of symptoms initially waylaid Zoe Kennedy of Stamford, CT, for three weeks, with her sense of smell never returning. And Christina Stanton of New York City says she had such low blood pressure that she couldn’t stand without fainting—with symptoms so severe, she ended up in the hospit...