Curating the week in wellness Oct. 4–8, 2021: Pursuing meaningful wellness, crafting more inclusive benefits, and more
The week’s essential content and fresh industry pickings for those dedicated to employee well-being.
Greetings, wellness, HR and comms pros!
Here’s this week’s collection of thought-provoking articles, savvy tips and relevant takeaways.
As always, please get in touch with any ideas, suggestions or feedback on how we can serve you better or cover topics that are top of mind at your organization.
1. A call to pursue genuine, more meaningful employee wellness.
Carrie Dennett, a dietician who worked for 10 years as a copywriter for a corporate wellness company, serves up some harsh truths about workplace well-being initiatives. Her piece in The Seattle Times takes a dim view of weight-loss programs and other schemes aimed at saving money or boosting productivity. Instead, she argues, workplace wellness initiatives should focus on incentives that “help employees be happier and healthier.”
How can wellness pros do such a thing? For starters, more isn’t always more. Dennett writes:
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