ROCHESTER, N.Y. —ComPsych recently announced the Gold winners of the fourth-annual Health at Work AwardSM and Roberts Communications was recognized. Other winners included GE Capital Solutions Fleet Services, HNI Corporation, and The MITRE Corporation. Winners were selected based on their wellness program’s comprehensiveness, delivery, promotion, participation rates and results achieved.
“Employers continue to find creative ways to engage and involve employees in wellness,” said Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz, chairman and CEO of ComPsych. “From cooking classes to involving families to getting employees to wear ‘lifestyle monitors,’ companies are ingraining the culture of wellness inside and outside of work.”
Some highlights of Roberts Communications’ health and wellness programs include:
- Annual Health Risk Assessments — employees get their blood pressure, BMI, total cholesterol, full lipid profile and blood glucose tested free of charge
- Eat Well.Live Well. Challenge — employees can participate in an eight week challenge where they wear a pedometer and have a goal to walk 10,000 steps each day and eat five cups of fruits and/or veggies each day
- Smoking Cessation
- Annual Flu Shots
- Roberts supplements half the cost of monthly dues to a local fitness facility
- Winter ski club
- Annual participation in Chase Corporate Challenge
- Summer schedules –this program gives every employee coupons they can redeem with their supervisor for four half-days off during Rochester’s beautiful summer weather