ASHHRA Health and Wellness Pulse
April 2017
 
Benefits
Strategy
Harvard Business Review
Most managers would agree that motivated, productive employees are crucial for organizational success, regardless of company size, industry or corporate strategy. The question is how to motivate them. Offering employees performance-based incentive pay is one common approach and sometimes these incentives work in ways managers intended them to. But there are ways in which these methods of performance pay can backfire.
 
Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 1:00-2:00pm ET 
Complimentary for ASHHRA members
Background checks are a common — and often required — element of any health care organization's hiring process. However, a tidal wave of new laws and regulations in the industry, and an onslaught of FCRA violations create uncertainty for many employers on how to ensure that their hiring processes are in compliance. In this webinar, Certiphi Screening’s General Counsel Alexander Erlam and Associate General Counsel/Director of Compliance Sadeq Khan explore five of the most common compliance mistakes employers make during the hiring process regarding background screening. 
 
Benefit Trends
HR Drive
How much do Americans love their pets? A great deal, says the American Pet Products Association (APPA), a membership organization that promotes responsible pet care and the pet products industry. U.S. households spent $66.75 billion caring for and feeding their pets in 2016 and are projected to spend $69.36 billion in 2017. Here, HR Dive speaks with Rob Jackson, co-founder and CEO of Healthy Paws Pet Insurance & Foundation, about pet insurance, how it works and whether it should be part of a company's benefits package.
 
Financial
HR Daily Advisor
Replacing employees is expensive. In a time of low employee retention and high turnover, employers are striving to improve programs with a positive impact on employee engagement. "While individual benefits may not drive retention, benefits packages that address employees’ needs demonstrate that a company cares and, in so doing, become a driver of retention," said Carla Dearing, CEO of SUM180.
 
UPMC  Health Plan
Workplace Programs & Perks
HR Dive
A new unpublished study conducted by Lightspeed, commissioned by Rubbermaid Commercial Products, found that workplace sustainability and recycling is more important to millennials than previous generations. Roughly 90 percent of millennials said they consider a company's sustainability important, as compared to 84 percent of Generation X respondents and 77 percent of baby boomer respondents.
 
Retirement
The Hiring Site
For many U.S. workers, retirement conjures up images of sunshine and travel. When it comes to planning for this chapter in life, however, many workers fall short. Over a third of workers ages 60 and older (34 percent) say they aren’t sure how much they’ll need to save in order to retire, according to a CareerBuilder survey.
 
Culture of Health
Workplace Wellness
Corporate Wellness Magazine
Blue Zones are areas in the world where individuals live longer and healthier lives. One of the common factors of these "Blue Zones" is that the healthy attitudes of the people come from the culture and environment they live in, rather than something that has been actively pursued by the people living in the region.
 
Work-Life Integration
Business News Daily
If you've noticed a steady stream of employees leaving your organization for other opportunities, you might be piling too much work on them. A new study from Kronos Incorporated revealed that employee burnout is a huge factor in why many organizations struggle to hold on to their top workers.
 
Mental Health
Health Affairs Blog
The landscape of health care innovation is complex and vast, and often leads to a global web of conversations that, very often, run parallel without ever intersecting to collaborate. That space where innovators are working at the fringe toward a similar outcome is where Scouting Health has stepped in to close the conversation gap.
 
Population Health
Health Affairs Blog
Population health has been defined as "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group." Measuring population health and its distribution can unite groups across sectors around a set of clear, defined goals. However, no one metric can capture the intricate and complex nature of population health.
 
Wellness Trends
Corporate Wellness Magazine
Well-being is a $3.72 trillion industry, according to new research released by the Global Wellness Institute. With people living longer and our pace of life only getting faster, keeping healthy is now a full-time job. On the flip side of this, statistics predict that the number of people who will suffer from one of the leading causes of disease is only going to increase. So how is the well-being industry trying to counterbalance this? 
 
 

 

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