We get reduced rates on our insurance if we trundle through yearly health measurements and "counseling." They don't keep track of the numbers--I checked--and they've always beamed at me when I say "I discuss these things with my doctor at my quarterly appointments." I don't discuss my medical issues in a big room full of my co-workers.
We have a program like that to get a reduced rate on our insurance. I haven't been doing it. I was going to this year - to get the reduced rate next year - but HR messed up and I wasn't able to participate. It doesn't seem to matter that I have regular checkups with my doctor. I've not been real happy about it.
Our Wellness program is actually pretty nice - they subsidize gym memberships and Weight Watchers
Ours is nice, if you're doing WW, or you join a gym they have a partnership with, or you're on-site to join the Lunchtime Walking Spree. But I don't and I'm not, so it doesn't help me. I'm not complaining about it; there are a lot of perks you can get if you're on-site but I'm happy trading them for the perk of not being on-site. I have complained about HR's incompetence screwing me out of my discount for next year, but no one seems to care enough to do anything.
We've got a gym onsite, but I already live half an hour away, I'm not tacking on an extra hour at the end of the day to workout, again in a room full of co-workers. I may pick up a membership at someplace with a pool so I can splash aimlessly and pseudo-aerobically.
They do make a point to include the remote employees when they can. For us that's mostly Sales. I know the gym subsidy can be any gym, you just have supply something that shows you actually attend (like a sheet someone initials affirming you were there) and you get what amounts to a rebate, so there's no "partnership" needed.
We are right in the middle of open enrollment and wellness. Wellness can save us $600 a year. It is really all on the employees to do. They mail things to our homes and the logon is to be done from home. We have to do a questionairre and then have a biometric screening through a lab or our dr (specific form faxed in) AND get 20 points for various healthy things ( questionairre=5, biometric=5, mammo=5....).
msbelle, that's exactly what our Wellness program is. HR messed mine up this year, so I don't get the discount next year, but next year I can participate to get the discount in 2017! yay
I hate corporate BS. I really hate that one woman refusing to answer her dang email can cost me $600.
Luckily, we don't have anything like that here. You can do what you want and no discounts!
DH used to have a thing like that. We don't, the only discount we get is for not smoking (and you just check a box next to " smoke" or "I don't smoke" to get the discount, the end, unless HR sees you taking a smoke break when you've checked "I don't smoke"). Which is just as well with me, that's getting too damn personal for my taste.
Open enrollment just started at my work and I need to check it out. Word on the street is they are taking the vision plan out of the mix, which would be a bummer for me.
I think our only change from last year is our rates go up a little? I should really look and see, though. Maybe later.
Which is just as well with me, that's getting too damn personal for my taste.
That's the reason I never participated before. Like, they don't really need to know what my cholesterol levels are, or how much I walk. I see a doctor regularly and I pay my health insurance premiums, that's really all I ought to have to do for their sake. But they kept raising the amount of the discount, until greed overcame my reluctance to share.
