Ceridian Canada has launched a new wellness tool designed to help employers target and measure employee health improvements.
The program, Wellness OneSource, is a website through which employees can complete a risk assessment questionnaire, and receive recommendations to reduce risk factors. The solution also provides coaching, tools and strategies to help users adopt and maintain healthy lifestyle behaviours, and enables employers to establish a wellness baseline and generate outcome data. Peel Children’s Aid and Thompson Rivers University are among the program’s pilot customers.
“Employees with health risks such as smoking and obesity are absent as much as 50% more often than their peers, and cost corporations millions each year,” said Estelle Morrison, director of health management with Ceridian LifeWorks.
“Our best approach to reducing the risk of chronic illnesses like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancers, and even depression—is to change unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. We designed Ceridian Wellness OneSource to drive the right outcomes among employees—such as increasing intake of healthy foods, choosing an active lifestyle and reducing tobacco dependence, BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure and cholesterol.”