Lifestyle Spending Account: Comprehensive Guide & Top Providers
Lifestyle spending accounts are flexible benefits accounts that employees can use as perk stipends to pay for health and wellness services or products.
Wellness Dollars: Everything You Need To Know To Maximize This Wellness Investment
Discover how to utilize wellness dollar program for a healthier workplace while boosting employee engagement.
25 Ways To Spend A Wellness Stipend
A wellness stipend is a financial benefit offered by companies to support staff health and well-being. Discover 25 ways to invest in employees’ wellness and happiness.
Survey: 70% Of Employers Considering A Lifestyle Spending Account
What benefit offering gives employees flexibility and freedom of choice while still allowing employers to decide the scope and stay true to their values? Meet Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs).
Yu-Kai Chou’s Octalysis Gamification Framework
According to Yu-Kai Chou, gamifiers have over-simplified human motivation in their attempts to gamify wellness activities. In particular, they have over-looked the 'eight-core drives of gamification.' This post characterizes these drives and creates a framework by which wellness activities can be gamified.
Gamified Fitness: A Fad Or The Future?
In order to make working out easier, wellness experts have tried to make a game out of it. To determine if this approach to fitness can live up to the hype, Wellable analyzes the techniques that gamifiers have used and gestures at what the future of gamified fitness might look like.
Pulse Check: A Crash Course In The Taxability Of Wellness Incentives
Every month, Wellable asks a single question to the large, growing, and dedicated community of human resources and wellness professionals subscribed to the Wellable Newsletter. The question for May asked respondents if the organizations they work for tax their wellness program incentives. With a divided response indicating a need for clarification, Wellable unpacks key issues and offers a simple decision tree for determining the taxability of wellness program incentives.
Why Higher Salaries Aren’t Creating Happier Employees
Salary is, understandably, one of the most important factors employees look at when applying for a new job. While there is no denying the appeal of a generous salary, in reality, this may not be the key to producing happier employees.
Study: Commercial Apps, Rewards Programs Linked With Increased Activity Levels
As smartphone technology advances and wearable devices become more ubiquitous, many wellness programs seek to utilize fitness tracking apps and tools to monitor and offer incentives for physical activity. However, it can be difficult to gauge how inspiring (or discouraging) this is for users and whether or not it has a substantial impact on people’s health habits and activity levels.