Being healthy is important for living well and achieving longevity. In the business realm, furthermore, employers want healthy employees, as these workers tend to be more productive, have fewer rates of absenteeism, and use less of their health insurance resources. This article provides an overview of corporate “wellness” efforts in the American workplace and the concomitant challenges which em...

in this commentary, we argue that financial incentives are only one of many key components that employers should consider when designing and implementing a workplace wellness program. strategies such as social encouragement and providing token rewards may also be effective in improving awareness and engagement. should employers choose to utilize financial incentives, they should tailor them to ...

Research Employers and Industries Pace University Library [1] Recommended databases are: "Business and Company Resource Center", "Business Source Premier", “Lexis-Nexis Academic” and “Mergent Online”. If you are a current student, you may enter your library bar code to use many of the databases. For alumni: access to the library databases will require obtaining an alumni ID card which must be p...

Research Employers and Industries Pace University Library [1] Recommended databases are: "Business and Company Resource Center", "Business Source Premier", “Lexis-Nexis Academic” and “Mergent Online”. If you are a current student, you may enter your library bar code to use many of the databases. For alumni: access to the library databases will require obtaining an alumni ID card which must be p...

Obtaining employment is often difficult for a person with epilepsy. Recent studies have shown that public attitudes towards epilepsy have improved'2 but finding ajob is still difficult for 25-75% of the 140 000 potential employees with epilepsy in the United Kingdom.34 It has been said that the reason for this difficulty is prejudice and discrimination which reflects a prevailing ignorance abou...

Research Employers and Industries Pace University Library [1] Recommended databases are: "Business and Company Resource Center", "Business Source Premier", “Lexis-Nexis Academic” and “Mergent Online”. If you are a current student, you may enter your library bar code to use many of the databases. For alumni: access to the library databases will require obtaining an alumni ID card which must be p...

Research Employers and Industries Pace University Library [1] Recommended databases are: "Business and Company Resource Center", "Business Source Premier", “Lexis-Nexis Academic” and “Mergent Online”. If you are a current student, you may enter your library bar code to use many of the databases. For alumni: access to the library databases will require obtaining an alumni ID card which must be p...