5大优质方案提升员工健康水平

Verne Harnish | 2012-03-27 13:24

帮助员工保持身心健康不仅对他们自身有益，同时也有益于公司的发展。本文将介绍一些公司正在采用的五种理念。

1、保健方案升级降低成本

从传统健康计划转向高扣除健保计划能帮公司节省下一大笔开支。但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。如何做到顺利实施高扣除健保计划，同时又让员工乐于接受？两全其美的办法包括设立“健康补偿账户”，员工能通过借记卡来支付预先扣除的账单。此外，同时提高员工薪资，以此来配合新计划，也能起到平息反对意见的效果。

2、福利外包坐享顶级保健服务

1. Blunt the blow

Switching from a traditional health plan to a high-deductible version can save you a bundle. But your employees may balk at paying more. One way to keep your team happy while transitioning to a high-deductible plan with lower premiums is by funding a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) that your staff can tap, via debit cards, to cover pre-deductible bills. Scheduling raises to coincide with the change to a new plan can also quell objections.

2. Outsource your benefits

如果希望采用大型公司的健保计划来吸引顶尖的人才，可以考虑寻找一家外包服务机构，即所谓的“职业雇主组织”（PEO），每月支付一笔固定的费用即可。通过外包，公司用团体价就能拿到堪与财富五百强媲美的高质量解决方案。我选择的职业雇主组织、TriNet公司首席法务官格雷格•哈蒙德称：没有哪家公司单凭自己就能搞定健保体系。”请登录napeo.org或者peocompare.com寻找适合你的职业雇主组织。

3、劳逸结合减少医保投入

2011年，哈佛大学（Harvard）研究人员发现，公司在健康项目上每投入一美元能使医疗费用下降3.27美元。可以先尝试一种好方法：能量计划领导力训练公司（Energy Project）创始人托尼•施瓦兹建议，让团队全力工作一个半小时，然后走路10分钟。recess.keenfootwear.com 网站的即时休整工具包还可以为你提供其他的好点子。

4、健身运动为工作加油

If you need a big-company-style health plan to win the best talent, consider joining a "professional employer organization," better known as a PEO, for a set monthly fee. By outsourcing you can join Fortune 500-quality plans at large-group rates. "There is no company that can beat the health care system at its own game," says Greg Hammond, chief legal officer at TriNet, the PEO I use. Find a PEO at napeo.org or peocompare.com.

3. Invest in wellness

Harvard researchers found in 2010 that medical costs dropped by about $3.27 for every dollar a company spent on wellness programs. One good way to get started: Suggest that your team work in 90-minute spurts and then take a 10-minute walk, says Tony Schwartz, founder of leadership training company the Energy Project. The Instant Recess Tool Kit at recess.keenfootwear.com offers other good ideas.

4. Pump up productivity

Pro Athlete公司的室内击球练习区

帮助员工们保持健康还能延长员工的高效工作时间。位于堪萨斯城的Pro Athlete公司是一家棒球设备零售商。首席执行官斯科特•海德里克为公司的95名员工提供了公司内部健身房、击球练习区、游泳池和篮球场。花费大约35万美元，这还不包括现场教练的费用。但海德里克称：“我不会只关注成本。”该公司成立于1987年，一直以来几乎没有出现过旷工或者跳槽的情况。

5、健康食品带来上佳表现

Helping employees stay fit will also help you to gain more productive hours per employee. Scott Hedrick, CEO of Pro Athlete, a retailer of baseball equipment in Kansas City, offers his 95 employees a company gym, batting cage, pool, and basketball court. The tab was about $350,000 -- on top of the cost of an onsite trainer -- but, Hedrick says, "I don't look at it that way." There's virtually no absenteeism or turnover at the company, founded in 1987.

5. Fuel peak performance

没人愿意把公司变成一个管理过度的保姆式机构，但如果能找到更好的食品来替代超级汉堡王这种垃圾食品，肯定能提升团队的健康水平。Pro Athlete公司首席执行官海德里克就聘请了一名专职厨师，每日为员工提供免费的健康午餐。如果请不起厨师，还可以把公司内出售垃圾食品的自动贩卖机换掉，选用新鲜健康食品零售公司（Fresh Healthy Vending）的产品。自从2010年开业以来，这家位于圣迭戈的公司已经在1,100多家公司和其他地点安装了食品自动贩卖机，出售酸奶和新鲜苹果等零食。

——凡尔纳•哈尼什是企业管理者教育机构Gazelles公司的首席执行官。

译者：李玫晓/汪皓

No one wants to turn the office into a nanny state, but helping employees find alternatives to Super Size Me junk food is bound to make your team healthier. Pro Athlete's Hedrick hires a chef to prepare a free healthy lunch daily. Can't afford that? Trade in your junk-food vending machine. Fresh Healthy Vending of San Diego has installed its machines -- stocked with snacks like yogurt and fresh apples -- in over 1,100 businesses and other locations since it opened in 2010.

--Verne Harnish is the CEO of Gazelles Inc., an executive education firm.

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