Google’s nap room. Facebook’s onsite laundry. Beme’s Juicero (RIP). Workplace perks and amenities are becoming increasingly common. Wellness programs that encourage healthy lifestyles are particularly prevalent. But new evidence has emerged that they may not make employees healthier, more productive, or cheaper to insure. Lou examines whether or not an ulterior motive is at work.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...

What Do Workplace Wellness Programs Do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
http://www.nber.org/workplacewellness...

Toward a Critical Theory of Corporate Wellness
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

Effect of an Employer-Sponsored Health and Wellness Program on Medical Cost and Utilization
https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_pu...


CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: Page Ellerson
Researcher: Arielle Sacks
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown

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