MedCity News July 8, 2021
A randomized, controlled three-year study of workplace wellness programs found no significant improvement in health outcomes for employees or cost. In fact, there was no improvement in self-reported health behaviors for employees who participated for the full 3-year period compared with those who participated for just 18 months.
More employers continue to adopt workplace wellness programs, but recent evidence suggests that these programs might not work.
More than 84% of large companies offered a wellness program as a benefit to their employees in 2019, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Companies offering these programs have raised billions of dollars, promising everything from improved outcomes to reduced healthcare spending, but with little evidence.
A study recently published in Health...
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