Think of the various employer sponsored benefits... They include a retirement or pension plan, healthcare, paid time off, or maternity leave.  These are designed to help your organization recruit and maintain qualified employees.  Yet there is not a single published study that shows that offering these benefits as any measurable effect on the company's ability to recruit or maintain qualified talents.  So why do employers continue to do them?  The simple answer is:  they believe they are important.

If your current benefit programs are not helping, it's time to change course, and think about adopting a corporate wellness program.  Unlike all the other benefits your worksite offers, wellness programs have been studied for decades. There are hundreds and hundreds of rigorous scientific evaluations of the impact of wellness programs which provides a great outlook on reasons to have a wellness program.  

Benefits of corporate wellness program are:

1).  Wellness Programs Improve Employee Health Behaviors
2).  Wellness Programs Reduce Elevated Health Risks
3).  Wellness Programs Reduce Health Care cost by 3-5%
4).  Wellness Programs Improve Productivity
5).  Wellness Programs Can Decrease Absenteeism by 25%
6).  Wellness Programs Can Improve Recruitment and Retention.
7).  Wellness Programs Build and Help Sustain High Employee Morale.
8).  Nearly 60% of millennials and Gen Z'ers feel that a corporate wellness program is important

Bodies By Akeem, LLC believes that employee fitness is essential to increasing the productivity of the company they work for.  We can designs, implement, and deliver fitness disciplines that can be incorporated into employees workday without disruption in their workflow.  Our fitness program can be tailored to meet the needs of government agencies, retirement communities, hospitals, real estate management groups, and small-to-mid size corporations.

Fact is, there's an enormous amount of research to support the benefits of a corporate wellness program.  A comprehensive wellness program is going to improve employee health and improve your organization’s bottom line. It is not going to make all your problems go away, but it is going to help you create a worksite culture of health.

Furthermore, adopting a corporate wellness program will boost and maintain employee morale. With an effective wellness program you will improve the lives of your employees and help drive the success of your organization.