{"id":981,"date":"2009-03-09T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2009-02-01T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:00:56","slug":"problems-with-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Problems with Wellness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve listened to radio shows where the host clearly knows she is on the wrong side of mass opinion.\u00a0 In fact, they are probably not on the wrong side of mass opinion, but instead just trying to get conversation and debate going.\u00a0 Sometimes on the radio, they are actually just trying to piss off an audience.\u00a0 While I can\u2019t say for sure, I think occasionally the guy over at Punk Rock HR is doing the same thing.\u00a0 In this post<\/a>, she espouses why HR should not be involved in wellness programs.\u00a0 While I do firmly believe in well executed wellness programs, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m here to argue today.<\/p>\n

The best way to stop the financial hemorrhaging of our health care system? Invest in a nationalized approach to health care, remove the burden from employers, and make health care a human right and a personal responsibility.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d simply like to say that nationalized health care is not the way to stop the financial hemorrhaging of our health care system.\u00a0 Instead, it\u2019s about the population and our generally unhealthy ways.\u00a0 Health of a population has less to do with who pays for it, and more about how people act.\u00a0 So on that, I\u2019ll go back on my word and talk about employer roles.<\/p>\n

The employer is indeed the best place to have wellness programs.\u00a0 Nationalized health care is simply too far removed.\u00a0 The closer the contact and the more consistent and frequent it is, the greater chance that wellness will actually take hold.\u00a0 I give PRHR that if we do get nationalized health care, employers will care less about employee wellness.\u00a0 After all, if they don\u2019t bear the brunt of the cost (at least if there aren\u2019t actuarial services that calculate the cost of claims over a year) then wellness communications may decrease over time.\u00a0 For now however, wellness for the time being is indeed best placed with the employer.
\nSuccessful wellness programs with a clear ROI\u00a0 do not exist.<\/p>\n

Does anything with a clear ROI exist in HR?\u00a0 Perhaps in a few places, but honestly, if we needed clear RIO in HR, 90% of our function would not exist.\u00a0 Is there clear ROI in talent management?\u00a0 I think not.\u00a0 We do what we do because we serve the employees as our customers, and somehow we tend to look out for their best interests.\u00a0 In this case, we realized that their best interests also happen to be in ours if benefit costs can be decreased over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve listened to radio shows where the host clearly knows she is on the wrong side of mass opinion.\u00a0 In fact, they are probably not on the wrong side of mass opinion, but instead just trying to get conversation and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}