Employee Benefit Advisor March 24, 2021
The digital age has drastically changed the conversation surrounding workplace wellness.
Employer-subsidized fitness memberships and wellness programs are no longer considered a perk, but an industry standard to job seekers. On top of an already competitive landscape, the new working-from-home economy, which is likely to continue long past the pandemic that sparked it, has changed the shape of the conversation. We are at a historic moment where 42% of the U.S. labor force is now working from home full-time — almost twice as many as pre-pandemic, according to recent Stanford research.
The question now becomes how do you make your business alluring to potential hires, if there isn’t an on-site location to host healthy lunches or other team building activities?...