Did you know about the best ways to promote wellness-related benefits to your employees on your HR Knowledgebase site?
A nationwide survey of wellness programs notes the following results:
- 62% Improvement in productivity
- 56% Used fewer sick days
- 30% Identified a disease
Benefits to organizations include the following improvement rates:
- 62% Retention/employee attraction
- 45% Employee behavior change
- 30% Cost-efficient program participation
- 20% Lower premiums in employer-sponsored benefits
Promoting Wellness-related Benefits
Employees can be unaware of all of the wellness programs and perquisites their employer provides.
Encourage employee participation in your organization’s wellness offerings by broadcasting them prominently on your Knowledgebase site.
Strategies follow.
For the Home Page
Post wellness program announcements and links to information prominently on the Knowledgebase Home page.
An eye-catching wellness-related banner at the top is particularly effective. Employees will see it as soon as they login.
- Announcements widget
- Bulletins widget
- Custom widget
- Health & Wellness widget
- Home page banner image (1430 x 200 pixels)
Benefits Content
Include wellness content on one or more commonly-used landing pages and add (or update) their detailed information to custom authored pages and benefit plans.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) plan (authored)
- Health & Wellness content pages
- Health & Wellness landing page
- Wellness-related uploads (.pdf, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Glossary of Health Coverage and Medical Terms
As wellness is part of health maintenance, employees tend to review their organization's medical insurance plans for information about checkups, preventive care, prescriptions, and more.
Our pre-authored Glossary of Health Coverage and Medical Terms document provides simple definitions for many commonly used terms used in medical insurance plans.
It also includes examples of how an employee and the organization share plan costs.
The glossary's terms and definitions are meant to be educational. Some of them might differ from the terms and definitions in your organization's plan or health insurance policy.
Medical Cost Calculator
When reviewing medical plans, employees want to know their costs.
The Medical Cost Calculator (MCC) figures the total annual out-of-pocket costs of the medical plans that their organization provides so employees can compare them—both premiums and the most commonly used services.
These services are:
- Primary Care Visit
- Specialist Visit
- Hospital Inpatient
- Lab and X-ray
- Emergency Room
- Preventive Care
- Rx Generic
- Rx Formulary Brand
- Rx Non-Formulary Brand
While existing staff tends to use the MCC most often during their employer's open enrollment period, new hires, and those employees who have an experienced a qualifying life event, use it throughout the year.
These qualifying life events include:
- Adding a dependent (having a baby, adoption, step-children)
- Dropping a dependent who has aged out of the plan
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Death of a covered family member
- Moving to a different zip code or county that changes the employee’s health plan area
For more information, see the Medical Cost Calculator Introductory Tour.
“Learn About” Content Pages
These pre-authored benefits information pages include the following health-related information:
- Learn About: Dental Programs
- Learn About: Medical Calculator
- Learn About: Medical Programs
- Learn About: Vision Programs
For examples of the "Learn About" pages' content, refer to the V11 KB: "Learn About" Content Pages document.
Videos
Include a window containing a wellness video on a content page or a widget.
Alternately, an integration link pointing to a video uploaded in-house or hosted on youtube can be added to any main page, widget, or content page on your Knowledgebase site.
For questions or more information, contact your HRSD Customer Success Manager.
