Monthly Health Topics

Physical fitness can play a vital role in your workplace. It can enhance the health and safety of your employees, make them more engaged at work, and improve their overall job satisfaction. Regular exercise can reduce stress, improve sleep, and lead to fewer missed work days.¹ It can even help prevent costly conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.^2,3

Exercise also boosts brain health and emotional resilience. It improves memory, attention, and focus and reduces anxiety and the risk for depression.^2,3

Explore our Healthy Lifestyle Toolkit for fitness resources you can use to improve your employees’ well-being.

Heart disease is one of the costliest medical conditions for employers — and its costs are expected to keep rising.⁴ Because people in the U.S. spend a third of their waking hours at work, it’s vital that workplaces support heart-healthy lifestyles.⁵

You can take an active role in your employees’ health by promoting healthy eating, exercise, stress management, and sleep habits, and encouraging regular screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes. In addition, research has shown that fulfilling social relationships are crucial to preventing heart disease.⁶ By supporting the best physical, mental, and social health of your employees, you can have a significant impact on one of the costliest illnesses facing the U.S. workforce.

Explore tips and tools to help support your employees’ heart health.

Obesity is a costly condition that impacts the health and well-being of roughly 30% of the American workforce.⁷ Along with direct health risks like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, obesity drives absenteeism at work and increases medical claims.⁸ It can also be associated with mental health conditions like depression and anxiety.⁹ In 2023, these direct and indirect costs added up to an economic impact of $425.5 billion.⁷

To help your employees maintain a healthy weight, there are ways you can build physical, mental, and social health consciousness in your workplace. Support healthy eating by providing nutritious foods in break rooms and meetings. Integrate opportunities for walking, stretching, or meditation into the workday. Promote resources for nutrition education, weight management, and food security. You can even incentivize healthy habits with team challenges and rewards.

Explore how you can help your employees achieve their weight management goals.

Unmanaged stress can lead to employee burnout. This decreases productivity while increasing health care costs and turnover.¹⁰ Primary sources of work stress include excessive workloads, poor management, and unclear expectations and communication.¹¹

Creating a culture of well-being at work can keep your employees at the top of their game. Companies with cultures of well-being experience a more stable and engaged workforce and are more innovative, agile, and customer-oriented.¹²

Learn strategies to support mental health, encourage work/life balance, and build emotional intelligence among leaders and managers with this on-demand webinar and mental fitness guide. 

Get the guide to prioritizing mental well-being in the workplace and add this mental health awareness training to your employee engagement program. Support your employees’ mental health and wellness journey by sharing these resources with them.

Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness. Encouraging your employees to challenge their brains in new ways and caring for their mental health can boost their brain health. Share these resources to help your employees take simple steps to improve their brain health now and into the future.

Support your employees in staying healthy on the go by sharing useful tips and resources to support them before, during, and after their travels. If something unexpected happens while they’re away from home, it’s easier than ever for them to get care.

Immunizations are a safe and effective way for your employees to protect themselves and the people around them against certain diseases. Vaccinations can help protect your employees and your business – share the benefits of getting immunized with your employees.

Financial health is important for your employees' overall total health. Planning for financial stability gives them the confidence to reach their goals. Share these resources to help set up your employees on a path to financial wellness.

Use this guide and this on-demand webinar to champion women's wellness in the workplace. From preventive care and disease management to pregnancy and childbirth, share these resources to help keep women's health top of mind and be an ally for their total health.

Tackling social drivers of health is a meaningful way to invest in your employees’ long-term well-being and essential to ensuring their optimal health. Use this social health guide and on-demand webinar to learn more about social health and share these resources with your employees to help connect them to community resources in support of their total health.

Encourage your employees to take care of their minds as well as bodies to help reduce stress and maintain mental health. Share the resources below and those in the “getting active” and “building a healthy mindset” sections of the Healthy Lifestyle Toolkit with your employees.