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Zeroing in on Weight Loss May Be a Bad Idea — The ShapeUp Survey, Pt 3
Posted by Bob Merberg in Commentary, Employee Wellness Programs, Reporting, ROI, ShapeUp, Uncategorized on March 8, 2012
In one of ShapeUp’s initial posts following the release of the results of its Annual Survey Large Employer Wellness Survey, they emphasized that obesity is a key driver of employer health care costs, and the survey results found that employers view addressing obesity as an important goal.
ShapeUp concluded:
Anyone serious about controlling behavior-driven health care costs in America would be wise to zero in on weight loss interventions aimed at large, self-insured companies.
Anyone?
In fact, employers who invest in weight management are likely to be doing so to excess. Read the rest of this entry »
Blogging about the ShapeUp Employer Wellness Survey: Why and How
Posted by Bob Merberg in Commentary, Employee Wellness Programs, ShapeUp, Uncategorized on March 5, 2012
(This post is second in a series. For the full series, click here).
I don’t want to use this series of blog posts to simply restate what ShapeUp has published on their own blog. If you are interested in the survey — and you should be — I direct your attention to Read the rest of this entry »
ShapeUp Shapes Up the Employee Wellness Debate
Posted by Bob Merberg in Commentary, Employee Wellness Programs, Reporting, ShapeUp, Uncategorized on March 3, 2012
I’m a fan of ShapeUp (formerly Shape Up the Nation), the employee wellness vendor that, in its own words, “combines social networking, social gaming, and financial incentives to make wellness fun, drive behavior change, and save companies money.”
While it seems ShapeUp has inched toward conformity by adopting (and adapting) a few conventional pieces of the employee wellness puzzle — like health risk appraisals and coaching — I still credit them with being a prominent vendor that challenges the status quo. And, in my humble opinion, few industries Read the rest of this entry »
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Deconstructing the ShapeUp Survey’s Findings about Incentives
Posted by Bob Merberg in Commentary, ShapeUp, Uncategorized on March 14, 2012
According to the ShapeUp Employer Wellness Survey, the average per employee per year incentive is $375.
I’ll take a pass, for now, on discussing the role of incentives in motivating behavior change. That topic is being well covered in all corners of the wellness world.
Let’s take a look at this number, $375. While ShapeUp wrote in its blog, and its webinar debate, that this is the average per employee per year (PEPY) incentive, I suspect that they were being more precise when they stated in their survey results that $375 was Read the rest of this entry »
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