HERO…or Goat?

From this page, you can access our entire anthology on HERO, and its frank admissions that wellness not only skewers employee morale, but loses money, too. We wish we’d thought of those conclusions…oh, wait, we did. Well, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Installment 1: HERO admits that wellness is bad for morale

Installment 2: We concede that HERO is right

Installment 3: HERO crowdsources arithmetic

Installment 4: HERO meets Trading Places…wellness saves one dollar

Installment 5: HERO invites us to debate. Not.

Installment 6: 7 take-aways from the HERO-Goetzel defense of wellness

Installment 7: How not to write an HRA

Installment 8a: Measuring wellness-sensitive medical events: the grand finale of the HERO analysis

Where wellness meets facts and fun.

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It’s Official: Employee Wellness Is a “Scam” | Pinoria says:

April 17, 2015 at 4:56 pm

[…] this report is chock full of disinformation in support of wellness, including a statement for which these 39 “experts” spurned a million-dollar reward […]

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It's Official: Employee Wellness Is a "Scam" says:

April 29, 2015 at 2:02 pm

[…] this report is chock full of disinformation in support of wellness, including a statement for which these 39 “experts” spurned a million-dollar reward […]

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Warning: Workplace Wellness Is Hazardous to Your Health | Larra Smithh's Advice says:

September 17, 2015 at 5:36 pm

[…] voluntarily admitted its worthlessness as thoroughly as the wellness industry did here. Use this reader’s guide to help interpret this self-immolation.) No need to take the industry’s own word for it. Penn […]

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The Many Failures of Workplace Wellness says:

September 19, 2015 at 2:37 am

[…] this reader’s guide to help interpret this self-immolation. No need to take the industry’s own word for it. Penn […]

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Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money | Jonathan Cilley says:

October 15, 2015 at 10:12 am

[…] in wellness, at least over the two-year period their example program covered. (We previously wrote a detailed critique of the […]

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Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money: Harvard Business Review - Health, Medical, and Science UpdatesHealth, Medical, and Science Updates says:

October 15, 2015 at 2:18 pm

[…] in wellness, at least over the two-year period their example program covered. (We previously wrote a detailed critique of the […]

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Corporate Wellness Programs are Money Losers - says:

October 18, 2015 at 1:46 pm

[…] in wellness, at least over the two-year period their example program covered. (We previously wrote a detailed critique of the […]

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3 Big Reasons Wellness Programs Have a Long Way to Go says:

December 10, 2015 at 9:18 am

[…] by the Population Health Alliance (PHA) and the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), revealed many surprising costs induced by wellness programs. Compiled were monetary costs, indirect costs, and what the authors […]

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Inside the Numbers: This Wellness Data Isn’t Looking Too Healthy - Health Insurance Companion says:

February 8, 2017 at 2:02 am

[…] prove the opposite. Another saying is that the biggest enemies of Ron Goetzel and his friends (the Health Enhancement Research Organization, which is the industry trade assocation) are facts, data, arithmetic, and their own […]

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3 Big Reasons Wellness Programs Have a Long Way to Go – The Olson Group says: