Ankara University.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Workplace Health Saf. 2021 Feb;69(2):81-90. doi: 10.1177/2165079920953052. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
Workplace wellness programs (WWPs) are increasingly promoted by businesses and governments as an important strategy to improve workers' overall health and well-being and to reduce health care and other organizational costs. Few studies have evaluated WWPs in small businesses to provide evidence on the potential return-on-investment (ROI) that WWPs might yield. This study aimed to fill this gap by presenting a quasi-experimental, ROI analysis of a WWP in a small company.
This observational quasi-experimental study evaluated economic outcomes of a multicomponent WWP implemented by a small long-term care company. The company provided approximately 2 years of de-identified, individualized data on its employees for 2013-2015. There were 116 WWP participants and 323 nonparticipants. Difference-in-differences models were used to evaluate the program using organizational costs and ROI estimates.
The estimated program cost was $132.692 (95% confidence interval [CI]: [$112.957, $156.101]) per participant and the estimated organizational costs savings were $210.342 (95% CI: [-4354.095, 2002.890]). The WWP achieved an ROI of $0.585 (95% CI: [-$35.095, $14.103]) per participant. Although not statistically significant, the results suggest that the WWP saved $1.585 for every $1 invested.
CONCLUSIONS/APPLICATION TO PRACTICE: These results suggest that the evaluated WWP yielded a positive, although nonsignificant, ROI estimate. While ROI is still one of the most common evaluation metrics used in workplace wellness, few studies present ROI estimates of WWPs in small companies. Given policy efforts to promote WWPs in small businesses, there is a need to conduct high-quality ROI analyses for WWPs in smaller companies.
职场健康促进计划（WWP）越来越受到企业和政府的推崇，是改善员工整体健康和福祉、降低医疗保健和其他组织成本的重要策略。很少有研究评估小企业的 WWP，以提供有关 WWP 可能产生的潜在投资回报率（ROI）的证据。本研究旨在通过展示小型公司 WWP 的准实验性 ROI 分析来填补这一空白。
本观察性准实验研究评估了一家小型长期护理公司实施的多组分 WWP 的经济结果。该公司在 2013 年至 2015 年期间为其员工提供了大约 2 年的匿名、个性化数据。共有 116 名 WWP 参与者和 323 名非参与者。使用差异-差异模型，根据组织成本和 ROI 估计值评估该计划。
估计的计划成本为每位参与者 132.692 美元（95%置信区间[CI]：[112.957 美元，156.101 美元]），估计的组织成本节省为 210.342 美元（95%CI：[-4354.095 美元，2002.890 美元]）。该 WWP 的 ROI 为每位参与者 0.585 美元（95%CI：[-35.095 美元，14.103 美元]）。尽管没有统计学意义，但结果表明 WWP 每投资 1 美元可节省 1.585 美元。
结论/对实践的应用：这些结果表明，评估的 WWP 产生了积极的，尽管是非显著的，ROI 估计。虽然 ROI 仍然是工作场所健康促进计划中最常用的评估指标之一，但很少有研究报告小型公司的 WWP 的 ROI 估计值。鉴于政策努力在小企业中推广 WWP，需要对较小公司的 WWP 进行高质量的 ROI 分析。
