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We're Still Standing: Employers Fight Sitting Disease

Employers look to furniture, structured breaks, and technology to reduce health risks associated with sedentary behavior.
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Standing Up for Employee Health (Literally)

Sedentary behavior poses health and productivity risks. Employers bring creativity to address the challenge.
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Breathing Life into Wellness

What's good for employees is good for business, as this white paper authored for Virgin Pulse shows.
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Employers Get Their Health Game On

White paper on the rise of health games in the enterprise. Written in collaboration with ShapeUp, a leader in social wellness.
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2012 Technology + Employee Wellness Report

First-ever survey focused exclusively on the use of health technology by employers. Reviews employers' perceptions and use of emerging technologies as well as their early results.
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The Second-Generation Wellness Program

A true culture of health — "Wellness 2G" — involves companies addressing seven key wellness areas: personal, social, mobile, emotional, financial, environmental, and political.
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The Stress of Not Having It All

We speak often about the stress of having it all. What about the stress of not having it all—by choice? Fran writes about the stress stemming from not realizing certain portions of oneself.
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Employers Miffed at Employees' Lack of Employee Health Engagement? Get Real.

This article about The National Business Group on Health and Towers Watson research on health engagement was featured on Boston College's Sloan Work and Family Research Network and in the National Healthcare Reform Magazine.
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5 Reasons to Take Employee Wellness Social

Social solutions to health are all over the external marketplace, but there are few to be found within company walls. This Sloan Work and Family Research Network article identifies five reasons to reconsider your approach.
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5 Tools, 20 Ideas for Making Workplace Wellness Social

Kick off your social approach to health engagement with these 20 ideas featured in the American Psychological Association's Good Company newsletter.
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