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The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010. Since its implementation, a number of programs have been developed in an effort to strengthen Medicaid and Medicare by lowering costs and improving the quality of care for millions of Americans.

New research released from Fidelity Investments shows employers across the country are doubling spending on health and wellness programs. The study shows that corporate employers are planning to spend an average of $521 per employee on health and wellness programs in 2013, up from just $260 4 years ago. The increased cost is indicative of the success of health and wellness programs in controlling overall organizational healthcare costs. Over the past several years organization health care cost has been rising at a phenomenal rate, that is prohibitive to some employers. Since the largest percentage of the cost comes from preventable conditions caused by employees bad habits such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol,  employers are looking to promote a healthy lifestyle among their workforce to bring overall cost down. Here are a few easy strategies for energizing your workforce around an organization-wide health and wellness strategy.

GiftCard Partners offers its leading gift card brands to Innovatix & Essensa members. Wellesley, MA – April 03, 2013 – GiftCard Partners Inc. (GCP) continues to branch out to provide the best and most up-to-date services to its customers in the corporate marketplace. GCP has recently contracted with Innovatix and Essensa, two of America’s leading group purchasing organizations (GPOs), to offer their members many of GCP’s leading gift card brands.

In order to build the type of employee culture that gets employees excited to come to work each day and have fun with their colleagues, employees have to be motivated in their positions. There are many approaches management can take to employees motivation, and making sure you use a successful strategy can be the difference between an unmotivated staff and a vibrant environment where employees are motivated to grow and learn in their positions. Here are 3 easy tips to successful employee motivation.

We’re finding that people are still questioning why companies across the U.S. are spending $22.7 BILLION
¹ on gift cards as incentives in corporate employee programs and what this segment of the B2B gift card market is all about. AND we’re also finding that corporations and companies of all sizes are STILL surprised to learn that there are savings to be had on bulk gift cards purchased for employee motivation, employee engagement, and employee rewards.  Why are 52% of U.S. businesses using gift cards to recognize and reward employees, sales folk, partners and customers.
² Dig deep into how gift cards are utilized in the workplace to motivate, incent, and reward in employee programs.[hs_action id="2877"] 1 & 2 Source: IRF Market Study: B2B Gift Cards