New research confirms that healthy employees are more productive employees, adding impetus for firms to establish (or enhance) an effective corporate wellness program.  Lifestyle changes, including better nutrition, more exercise, and less stress, largely account for the author’s findings.  Benefits of a corporate wellness program for the firm are led by reduced absenteeism and lower health insurance costs.  An implication of this research for persons (such as many graduating BBA students) seeking full-time employment for the first time is that healthiness going into a job search will make you more marketable, so do all that you can to get healthy as a prelude to job hunting.  Human resource managers indirectly assess healthiness in job interviews even though direct health-oriented questions may be avoided on application blanks and in person.

Source:  Based on Lauren Weber, “Wellness Programs Pay Off, Study Says,”  Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2017, p. B5.