According to a recent Optum survey, 48 percent of workers who frequently participate in health and wellness programs are extremely likely to recommend their employer as a place to work. Among those who don’t participate, just 29 percent would recommend their employer—and at companies that offer no such options, only 18 percent of employees would do so.
In fact, according to Optum, employees with access to seven to eight health and wellness programs were one and a half times more likely to continue working for their current employer, and three times more likely to recommend their employer, compared with workers with no access to such programs.