Making the Business Case for Investments in Workplace Health and Wellness

This report provides organizations of all sizes with guidance on how to demonstrate the positive impacts of their investments in health and wellness initiatives.

Document Highlights

Making the Business Case for Investments in Workplace Health and Wellness offers insights into the necessary components of a comprehensive workplace health and wellness program, including evaluation. Evaluation is a critical component since it allows practitioners to gather evidence on the effectiveness of the wellness program. This information can be used to support funding allocations and make strategic decisions about future programming. A measurement framework is presented to help guide employers on what kinds of outcomes and impacts they can expect and what kinds of measurement approaches are appropriate, depending on the sophistication of their workplace wellness program. The report provides sample calculations for a variety of metrics that employers can use, for example, to track short-term and long-term disabilities, casual absences, and workers’ compensation claims. It also provides a sample worksheet for calculating the return on investment of health and wellness initiatives, along with a hypothetical example.