This toolkit is designed to support a culture of workplace health and provide you with a foundation for your organization’s employee well-being program. Whether you’re looking to help your employees make healthy choices around the holidays or ensure they’re thriving year-round, this no-cost program can help you encourage lasting lifestyle changes. Reduce stress, build healthier habits that continue at home, and potentially lower the cost of care by taking advantage of our healthy lifestyle resources.
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Healthy Lifestyle Toolkit
Why a healthy lifestyle matters
Our health is influenced by a variety of factors, including dietary choices, our response to stress, and access to affordable housing and healthy food.
Weight is just one indicator of health — and people who are overweight or obese are at increased risk for a variety of serious health conditions, including heart disease and stroke, cancer, sleep apnea, musculoskeletal pain, mental health disorders, and diabetes.1 But other behavioral patterns, like physical inactivity and heavy alcohol consumption, can also influence diabetes and heart disease risk.2
Workers with diabetes miss an average of 6 more workdays per year than workers without diabetes.6
More than 1 in 3 adults have prediabetes, and about 1 in 7 adults have diabetes, making it one of the most common workforce health issues facing businesses.3,4
Those who are sedentary for at least 10 hours a day have a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular disease.5
The annual cost of obesity
The health risks associated with body mass index (BMI) vary according to body shape, ethnic group, and age. And BMI doesn’t directly assess body fat, or account for muscle or bone density. But it can be used in combination with other health risk factors for overweight and obesity.7
Health care costs for obese workers are 67% higher than for employees without obesity.10
Employers incur
$4,257per year in additional direct medical costs for each employee who is overweight or obese.8
Each 1-point decrease in BMI annually saves
$367for employees with hypertension
$752in health care expenses for employees with diabetes9
It doesn’t matter where healthy habits start
Any encouragement you give your employees can have a positive impact on their lifestyle choices at home. Try thinking up creative ways to fit in a few minutes of movement or empower healthier decisions where possible.
Consider turning that check-in with your direct report into a 15-minute walk. Or adding 5 minutes of stretching or meditation to your virtual team meeting. You can also promote smarter snacking choices and incentivize healthy holiday habits.
Worksite health survey: How healthy is your workplace?
Employee health interest survey
Starting a workforce wellness program
Resources to share with your employees
Nutrition
Getting active
Measuring your team’s success
Once you’ve engaged your employees in a well-being program, ask them to re-take their health assessment. Or create your own survey to measure your efforts. Celebrate your successes and use what you’ve learned to build a sustainable culture of wellbeing — and support the health of your employees and business.
Current Kaiser Permanente customers: Reach out to your account manager or Workforce Health partner if you’d like additional guidance.
Activation Guide
Use these templates to communicate with your employees as you launch your workforce well-being program and continue to support healthy lifestyle choices at work and home.
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