In Your WORKPLACE
More than 60% of adults work, and many spend 2,000 or more hours a year at work. Worksite wellness programs make the places they work healthier. A healthy worksite has opportunities for employees to:
- be physically active
- eat nutritious foods
- breathe safe, clean air
Successful worksite wellness programs have been shown to
- reduce absenteeism
- improve productivity and presenteeism (when employees are at work but are not as productive as usual due to stress, depression, injury, illness)
- control increasing health care costs
- reduce injuries
- improve employee morale and retention
Healthy employees miss fewer days of work, so they are more productive and have fewer health care costs. Employee turnover is expensive; a wellness program is an added benefit that can encourage employees to stay.
Steps to a Healthier Cleveland’s Healthy Cleveland Business Council helps Cleveland area businesses to start, maintain and enhance their worksite wellness programs.
Worksite wellness programs for City of Cleveland employees
Steps to a Healthier Cleveland provides worksite wellness programming for the City of Cleveland’s 9,000+ employees. These efforts include:
- quarterly employee wellness challenges, including Step Up to the Plate walking challenge, Color Your Palate Fruits & Veggies—More Matters challenge, Step To It! stairwell challenge, Hydr8 water-drinking promotion, and the Biggest Loser weight loss competition
- healthy vending initiatives—working with AVI Foodsystems, vending machines in City buildings are required to have 40% healthier options
- monthly Wellness While You Work newsletter
- City of Cleveland Wellness Team
