Study: Wellness Awards Shrink Health Care Costs

Whether employers are making an effort to save for their own benefit or to get employees on a track to good health, a recent study by the Incentive Research Foundation found that many of them are now offering incentives through workplace wellness programs. The payoff? As much as $1.9 trillion in savings per year, says Rodger Stotz, Chief Research Officer for the IRF. “And this doesn’t even consider productivity gains or worker quality of life improvements,” he says. http://huff.to/rdrwjw