Illinois Workplace Wellness - Media
Selected Press Coverage
| February, 18, 2022, The Wall Street Journal, by Iwan Barankay and Peter Cappelli "The Problem With Employee Wellness Programs" | |
| August 7, 2018, The Washington Post, by Megan McArdle "Your workplace wellness program probably isn't making you healthier" Story reprinted by Chicago Tribune; Tulsa World; Herald Tribune; Savannah Now | |
| August 6, 2018, The New York Times, by Aaron Carroll "Workplace Wellness Programs Don't Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise." | |
| July 31, 2018, Knowable Magazine from Annual Reviews, by Alla Katsnelson "Do 'workplace wellness' programs work?" | |
| April 2018, The NBER Digest, by Steve Maas "Assessing an Illinois Workplace Wellness Program" | |
| February 27, 2018, Forbes, by Alan Kohll "Are You Measuring The Real Impact of Your Employee Wellness Program?" | |
| January 26, 2018, Bloomberg, By Rebecca Greenfield "Workplace Wellness Programs Really Don't Work" Story reprinted by The Chicago Tribune; SFGate; NOLA.com; New Zealand Herald; Insurance Journal; The Durango Herald; Kaiser Health News; Herald-Tribune; Los Angeles Times; Financial Post |
Selected Podcast & Radio Coverage
| November 25, 2019, Conversable Economist, by Timothy Taylor "Workplace Wellness Policies: Disappointing Evidence" | |
| January 9, 2019, Redesigning Wellness, by Jen Arnold "Breaking down the University of Illinois Workplace Wellness Study with David Molitor and Julian Reif" | |
| August 23, 2018, BYU Radio, by Julie Rose "Reprieve for Coal, Hawaii's Early Electricity, Corporate Wellness Programs" | |
| February 28, 2018, Illinois Public Media, by Niala Boodhoo "Employees' Health & Wellness" | |
| February 16, 2018, Marketplace, by Tracey Samuelson "Do corporate wellness programs work?" | |
| January 25, 2018, Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM, Hosted by Peter Cappelli and Iwan Barankay "In the Workplace" |
More Press Coverage
 | October 4, 2021, The Seattle Times, by Carrie Dennett "Are workplace wellness programs all they’re cracked up to be? Here’s the deal". | |
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| June 17, 2021, The Washington Post, By Katherine Baicker and Zirui Song "Workplace wellness programs are big business. They might not work". | |
| September 15, 2020, Jotwell, by Amy Monahan "The Profit-Maximizing Wellness Plan? Results from the First Comprehensive Randomized Controlled Trial of an Employer Wellness Program" | |
 | June 22, 2020, The Society for Human Resource Management, by Stephen Miller “Wellness Programs Show Modest Benefits, as Efforts Pivot to Well-Being” | |
 | June 10, 2020, The Indian Express “Workplace wellness programme has limited benefits for employees’ health: Study” | |
 | June 09, 2020, KFF, by Karen Pollitz and Matthew Rae “Trends in Workplace Wellness Programs and Evolving Federal Standards” | |
 | June 08, 2020, Medical News Today, by Timothy Huzar “Workplace wellness programs may not improve employees’ health” | |
| May 28, 2020, Health News Illinois, by Ryan Voyles “University of Illinois study tamps down benefits of workplace wellness programs” | |
 | May 27, 2020, Philly Voice, by Tracey Romero “Workplace wellness programs have little impact on overall staff health, study finds” | |
 | May 27, 2020, Healthcare Drive, by Ron Shinkman “Employee wellness programs unlikely to move the needle on health, study finds” | |
 | May 26, 2020, Illinois News Bureau, by Phil Ciciora “Study: Benefits of workplace wellness programs underwhelming” | |
 | May 26, 2020, United Press International, by Brian P. Dunleavy “Workplace wellness programs don't improve overall staff health, study finds” | |
| April 16, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine, by Amy Finkelstein "A Strategy for Improving U.S. Health Care Delivery—Conducting More Randomized, Controlled Trials" | |
| April 2020, Stanford Social Innovation Review , Marilyn Harris "Ineffective Workplace Wellness" | |
| March 9, 2020, Bridge Michigan Health Watch "How Michigan hospitals and businesses try to keep workers happy, healthy" | |
| March 4, 2020, New York Times, by Sanam Yar "Can Wellness Heal the Workplace?" | |
| March 4, 2020, MedPage Today, Nicole Lou "Workplace Wellness Program Triumphs for Hypertension: Two-thirds meet blood pressure target after 2 years" | |
| January 16, 2020, Consumer Reports, Sally Wadyka "Are Workplace Wellness Programs a Privacy Problem?" | |
| October 4, 2019, Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik "Trump runs dry on healthcare ideas, promotes wellness programs known to be useless" | |
| August 29, 2019, Health Payer Intelligence, Kelsey Waddill "Wellness Programs Focus on Employee Health, Less on Spending" | |
 | August 21, 2019, Modern Healthcare, Alex Kacik "Wellness programs grow quickly but efficacy still open for debate" | |
 
| August 14, 2019, Harvard Business Review, Charlotte Lieberman "What Wellness Programs Don't Do for Workers" | |
 
| August 13, 2019, Harvard health Publishing, Robert Shmerling "Do employee wellness programs actually work?" | |
 
| July 27, 2019, Benefit News, Chris Skisak "Would wellness programs work if strategically linked to benefit plan design?" | |
 
| June 28, 2019, Corporate Wellness Magazine , Brittany U. Carter "Crafting Wellness Programs That Engage Employees Requires Self-Reported Data" | |
 
| April 26, 2019, HR Dive, Lisa Burden "Wellness plans provide few benefits, study of BJ's Wholesale Club reveals" | |
 | April 21, 2019, MedCity News, by Kevin Truong “Randomized control study shows little benefit from employee wellness programs” | |
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| April 19, 2019, Los Angeles Times, by Leila Miller “A wellness program at work may make you feel good, but it won’t improve your health” | |
 | April 18, 2019, Employee Benefit New, by Francois Millard and Daniel Kotzen “New research says wellness isn’t working. Here’s where it’s wrong” | |
| April 18, 2019, MinnPost, by Carey Susan Perry "Workplace wellness programs: Study casts doubt on effectiveness" | |
| April 18, 2019, Kaiser Health News, by Julie Appleby "Workplace Wellness Programs Barely Move The Needle, Study Finds" | |
 | April 16, 2019, The Verge, by Angela Chen “Rigorous new study of employee wellness programs suggests they may not be very effective” | |
| April 16, 2019, WBUR, By Carey Goldberg "Harvard Study On Workplace Wellness: Behaviors Change But Health Does Not, So Far" | |
| April 16, 2019, Modern Healthcare, by Steven Ross Johnson "Workplace wellness programs don't improve employee health: study" | |
| April 16, 2019, JAMA Network, by Jean Marie Abraham, PhD "Employer Wellness Programs, A Work in Progress" | |
| April 16, 2019, CNBC @ Work, by Eric Rosenbaum "For 50 million Americans on the workplace wellness treadmill, test results are back, and they are not good" | |
| April 16, 2019, Harvard Medical School, by Jake Miller "Study: Wellness Programs Do Little to Improve Health, Lower Spending" Story reprinted by UChicago News | |
| March 20, 2019, Becker's Hospital Review, by Morgan Haefner "Employer wellness programs don't cut healthcare costs, study suggests" | |
| January 14, 2019, Mens Health, by Jamie Millar "Should Companies Invest More in Workplace Wellness?" | |
| January 14, 2019, MIT Sloan Management Review, by David Hauser "Do Workplace Wellness Programs Really Work?" | |
| November 29, 2018, The Outline, by Angela Lashbrook "Your Boss Wants You Healthy For All The Wrong Reasons" | |
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| December 13, 2018, NBER NBER Interview with Damon Jones | |
| October 3, 2018, Harvard Business Review, by Michael C. Sokol "How to Gauge the Effectiveness of Employee Wellness Programs" | |
| September 24, 2018, Strategy+Business, by Julie Hobsbawm "Why Corporate Wellness Programs Fall Short" | |
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| September 24, 2018, Kaiser Health News, by Julie Appleby "Blood, Sweat And Workplace Wellness: Where To Draw The Line On Incentives" Story reprinted by NPR; ABC News; Albuquerque Journal; Kaiser Health News | |
| September 3, 2018, Insight, by Neil Franklin "Workplace wellness programmes may be a waste of time and money, study concludes" | |
| August 30, 2018, Daily Illini, by Julie Rose "Workplace wellness study makes strides" | |
| August 23, 2018, Workforce, by Andie Burjek "Workplace Wellness Programs: Different Research, Different Results" | |
| August 23, 2018, Inc.com, by Suzanne Lucas "Randomized-Controlled Study: Wellness Programs Don't Work" | |
| August 23, 2018, The British Psychological Society Research Digest, by Alex Fradera "First randomised-controlled trial of an employee Wellness Programme suggests they are a waste of money" | |
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| August 14, 2018, Bloomberg Opinion, by Faye Flam "Workplace Wellness Programs Correlate With Wellness" | |
| August 9, 2018, HealthNewsReview.org, by Michael Joyce "Do workplace wellness programs work? A unique study does much more than offer a possible answer" | |
| July 18, 2018, MarketWatch, by Kari Paul "All those aerobic and meditation classes may not boost company morale - or profit" | |
| July 12, 2018, NewsTribune, by Jeff Dankert "Are workplace wellness programs worth it?" | |
| June 28, 2018, Benefits Pro, by Michael Popke "The EEOC isn't taking action on wellness regulations, but employers certainly can" | |
| March 21, 2018, Wellable "Podcast: The Illinois Workplace Wellness Study on Effects of Wellness Programs" | |
| March 16, 2018, Colorado Public Radio, by John Daley "The Next Step In Workplace Wellness Lets Employees Shape A Healthy Culture" | |
| March 6, 2018, Balloon Juice, by David Anderson "Wellness programs and the West Virginia Teacher's strike" | |
| February 23, 2018, American Journal of Managed Care, by Kaitlynn Ely "Employer-Sponsored Wellness Programs Attract Already Fit and Healthy Individuals" | |
| February 21, 2018, McKnight's Senior Living, by Lois Bowers "Intended benefits of workplace wellness plans appear elusive" | |
| February 21, 2018, Human Resource Executive, by Tom Starner "Workplace Wellness Worries" Story reprinted by HRM Asia | |
| February 19, 2018, BenefitsPRO, by Mike Lamb "Is workplace wellness worth the effort?" | |
| February 15, 2018, Club Industry, by Pamela Kufahl "Study Sheds Doubt on First-Year Benefits of Corporate Wellness Programs" | |
| February 14, 2018, The Calgary Eyeopener, by David Gray "The Illinois Workplace Wellness Study" | |
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| February 6, 2018, Human Resource Executive, by Carol Harnett "Wellness Programs On Trial" | |
| February 6, 2018, Ladders, by Monica Torres "Study: Workplace wellness programs do not save employees money or make them healthier" | |
| February 6, 2018, FierceHealthcare, by Paige Minemyer "Wellness programs may not pay immediate dividends" | |
| February 5, 2018, The Society for Human Resource Management, by Stephen Miller “Does a New Study Underestimate Wellness Programs?” | |
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| February 1, 2018, New York Times, by Margot Sanger-Katz "Employer Health Insurance: Often-Hated, Sometimes Pioneering, and Now on Amazon's Radar" | |
| February 1, 2018, Compensation.BLR.com, by Jennifer Carsen "Are Workplace Wellness Programs a Waste of Time and Money?" | |
| January 30, 2018, WCIA, By Aaron Eades "UI study suggests workplace health programs ineffective" | |
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| January 30, 2018, Health News Illinois, By Tim Stumm "Study Finds Little Benefit From Workplace Wellness Programs" Story reprinted by MyStateLine.com | |
| January 29, 2018, Wellable "Study: Average Health Care Spenders More Likely to Participate in Wellness Programs" | |
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| January 26, 2018, WBUR, By Carey Goldberg "Study Finds Virtually Zero Benefit From Workplace Wellness Program In 1st Year" | |
| January 26, 2018, The World Bank: Development Impact, By David McKenzie "Weekly links January 26: learn to machine learn, that wellness program might only help with your multiple testing correction, working beats saving, and more..." | |
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| January 25, 2018, BenefitsPRO, By Emily Payne "Wellness Programs Good For Recruitment, Not So Much For Medical Savings" | |
| January 24, 2018, PLANSPONSOR, By Rebecca Moore "A Different Goal for Employers to Offer Wellness Programs" | |
| January 24, 2018, HR Dive, By Valerie Bolden-Barrett "Study: Wellness programs may not lower medical costs, improve behaviors" Story reprinted by PS News | |
| January 23, 2018, Politico Morning Shift, By Ted Hesson "The NBER released a study examining whether workplace wellness programs lowered medical expenditures for companies" | |
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| January 23, 2018, Politico Morning Health, By Mohana Ravindranath "Well, well, well" |