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144 Monthly Lab. Rev. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/month144 and id is 1 raw text is: Monthly Labor III BLS ReviewBLS January 2021 What attributes characterize a successful corporate wellness program? Corporate Wellness Program: Linking Employee and Organizational Health. Edited by Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2015, 392 pp., $168 hardback. _ _ _r_ _ _ _ _ Edited by Ronald J. Burke and Astrid M. Richardsen, Corporate Wellness Programs: Linking Employee and Organizational Health is a compilation of evidence-based essays examining how employers can improve employee productivity and reduce the cost of healthcare through workplace wellness programs. Corporate wellness programs are popular and widespread. As defined in the book, a corporate wellness program is an organized employer sponsored program that is designed to support employees (and sometimes their families) as they adopt and sustain behaviors that reduce health risks, improve quality of life, enhance productivity, and benefit an organization's bottom line. These objectives are important because the data presented in the book suggest that lifestyle-related chronic diseases in the United States account for 70 percent of the nation's medical costs. Individuals with unhealthy habits, such as physical inactivity, poor diet, smoking, and excessive alcohol consumption, have higher medical costs and face greater health risks. Men and women also are getting less sleep, and sleep-deprived employees are less productive and more likely to make errors and be involved in accidents. Corporate Wellness Programs focuses on the efforts organizations can adopt to enhance the health and well- being of their employees. Organizations invest time and money in these efforts, in part because they benefit from them in the long term. The concept of health includes physical, mental, and social well-being and is linked to a Henggao Cai caithenaaao~bIs.aov Henggao Cai is an IT specialist in the Office of Technology and Survey Processing, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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