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The combination of superior technology with direct interpersonal employee contact is the operable means to impacting ROI long term
REDMOND, WA. May 18, 2009– Worksite Wellness, a provider of corporate wellness design and implementation services have recently enhanced their already robust suite of wellness solutions. “To keep ourselves on the leading edge of wellness, it was important to grow our technological base while maintaining our core approach of human interaction,” says Buzz Truitt, head of business development and managing partner in Worksite Wellness, LLC. “There is no question that wellness works. The vast research behind our platform validates a minimum 2-3x return on investment for wellness done right. The determinant now is– what is the right wellness solution for your company?”
Worksite Wellness’ WellMetrics™ online service focuses on the strengths of an individual as opposed to singling them out as a health risk. “By focusing on maximizing employees’ inborn potential, we engage them to participate in something that feels good to them. Then when faced with their areas for improvement, they feel energized to take those on and make a positive change,” says Dr. Toni Best, Wellness Evangelist and managing partner. “People won’t do what they don’t want to do. Our service empowers them to choose. Health comes from within. The potential is always there, people just have to choose to access it.”
The WellMetrics™ online service includes a comprehensive health, productivity and well-being assessment, opportunities to challenge coworkers to a wellness goal, goal tracking, journaling, community forum, incentive management, and connections to wellness resources customized to the company and the individual’s needs. It includes dashboards that show the employer an aggregate of the health and productivity measures of it’s employee base while maintaining the confidentiality of the individual. Utilizing these dashboards, Worksite Wellness is able to help the company decided where to focus their wellness efforts in the most cost effective way to have the greatest impact on lifting the company’s bottom line.
Worksite Wellness has furthermore expanded its E-nitiatives with phone & web coaching by certified specialists, providing high quality, personalized health and lifestyle coaching, education and referral services, with refreshing human service. “Technology and social media are certainly driving the current wellness economy. What we have learned though, is without the human touch, the technology alone loses steam,” comments Dr. Darren White, head of strategy and managing partner at Worksite Wellness, LLC. “While others are attempting to completely automate wellness, what makes Worksite Wellness different is that by combining cutting edge technology with quality human interaction, we ensure the program and its users greater success, and the company a positive cultural shift towards well-being and return on investment.”
The Worksite Wellness objective is to provide corporate resources that engage, educate, advocate, and fundamentally evolve corporate lifestyle in the workplace. By giving people the strategies to live a healthy lifestyle, individuals can positively influence the lives of their families and communities. “As a grassroots initiative, beginning at the place people spend most of their time - at work - we can regain control of how health care is managed in the U.S,” contends White.
About Worksite Wellness
Based in Redmond, Washington, Worksite Wellness, LLC is a full service wellness design and implementation company combining cutting edge technology with a refreshing human touch. Based on a growing body of evidence on health and human capital, Worksite Wellness focuses on all the stimulators of health, well-being and productivity through an inspired mix of innovative social media and good old fashioned human service. More information is available at www.worksitewellness.net
