Daycos Employees Working Hard to 'Be Well'

July 27, 2009 Comments Off

On April 1, 2009, Daycos started offering a new benefit to all of our employees: a new wellness program (‘Be Well’). This program focuses on three main areas, which are Annual Exams, Tobacco Use, and a Healthy Body. Employees and their spouses have the option to reduce their health insurance costs based on these three areas, as well as receive a few extra perks to help them out along the way, if they want to participate.

Regarding Annual Exams, the company has offered to pay for their office visit copay if they have an appointment to get their annual physical, as well as up to 2 hours of ‘Wellness Time’ each year to schedule an exam without having to make up their hours. With Tobacco Use, the company has offered to pay for a tobacco cessation class to encourage our employees to quit using tobacco. And as far as the Healthy Body area is concerned, we are allowing our employees to receive the incentive if they are at a healthy BMI – or at least gradually making progress each quarter towards their BMI measurement. We are also allowing our employees an extra 15-minute Wellness Break each day, we are putting in an exercise room in the office, and have a weekly Weight Watchers meeting here at the office for any interested employees and their spouses.

Overall the Be Well program is designed to support the overall health and wellness of our employees and their families. The people who make up our company are, by far, our most important asset, and we are committed to providing a workplace that supports and encourages their health and wellness.

June 30th officially marked the end of our 1st Quarter of the wellness program, and everyone who participated has shown tremendous results!! We have 78% of our employees who have gotten a physical/exam in the past year; 10 employees have gone in for one the past three months – but 5 of those exams were new exams (employees who hadn’t gotten one in at least a year). And out of 44 employees who went through their fitness assessment, in only 3 months as a group we have lost: 45% of our body fat, 40.8 total BMI points, 262.2 pounds, and 234.5 inches!! With those numbers we have already basically lost an entire employee in body weight, but that is a risk we’re willing to take! We are very proud of all of our employees who have participated, and to say that we are pleased with everyone’s enthusiasm and participation is an understatement!