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Working Well

Featuring: Glen Gunderson

With healthcare costs threatening corporate returns and employee performance suffering under the influence of lackluster health and fitness, many companies are turning to corporate-wellness programs to help them turn the situation around. From offering on-site health screenings and yoga classes to purposely slowing elevators in an attempt to encourage folks to take the stairs, companies are embracing a wide range of strategies designed to encourage employees to get healthier, fast. These approaches fall into both the "carrot" (lower healthcare premiums and subsidized fitness-club memberships for those who participate in suggested programs) and the "stick" (smokers risk losing their jobs) categories.

On this episode of Get a Whole Life, Pilar talks with Life Time Fitness's Glen Gunderson, Vice President of Business to Business, about the trends shaping these initiatives today. Glen, who has overseen the company's Corporate Wellness division for the past several years, explains the bottom-line benefits many companies are recognizing by empowering their employees to take better and more proactive care of themselves — and what direction corporate-wellness strategies are poised to take next.

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