{"id":7709,"date":"2017-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/what-is-the-roi-for-workplace-wellness-programs\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T05:00:00","slug":"what-is-the-roi-for-workplace-wellness-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/what-is-the-roi-for-workplace-wellness-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the ROI for Workplace Wellness Programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re starting a wellness program, or evaluating your current program, calculating the ROI is important. According to research by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, most North American employers saved $1 to $3 in their overall health care costs for every dollar spent on wellness. This article offers a number of ways to look at calculating both direct and indirect ROI.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concentra.com\/resource-center\/articles\/what-is-the-roi-for-workplace-wellness-programs\/\">What is the ROI for Workplace Wellness Programs?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Are wellness programs just a trend, or do they provide actual value for the workplace? 70% of US employers offered a wellness program in 2015, with an expected 8% increase in 2016, according to an Employee Benefits report from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re starting a wellness program, or evaluating your current program, calculating the ROI is important. According to research by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, most North American employers saved $1 to $3 in their overall health care costs for every dollar spent on wellness. This article offers a number of ways to look at calculating both direct and indirect ROI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.concentra.com:443\/-\/media\/project\/concentra\/dotcom\/usa\/images\/resource-center\/twitter\/roi-workplace-wellness-tw.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[145,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-productivity","9":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}