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.

They only numbers they get at these screenings are weight, waist measurement, body fat measured by some weird electrical resistance thingie, and blood pressure. On the sheet that asked about medical conditions, I wrote "I discuss these things with my doctor", and they didn't even keep the sheet.

I am finding today not entirely satisfactory for a number of reasons. FTR