Whole-Person Approach 10x Better at Predicting Productivity
Companies keep rolling out these Health Risk Assessments (HRA), thinking that they really help predict productivity. Well, they kinda sorta do. A little bit.
But as it turns out, there are much, MUCH better predictors out there. In fact, the health risk factors from our study barely crack the Top 10 predictors of productivity.
What does? Things like job satisfaction, belief in your company, meaningful work, the ability to manage depression (OK, that counts as a health risk) – even “openness & optimism” – trump more “conventional wisdom” wellness measures like heart health and nutrition.
The Limeade well-being assessment covers work, personal and health factors, and predicts productivity more than ten times better than health risk factors alone, per our recent study of over 9,000 participants. There is quite a bit of fancy math behind this, which we will find a way to publish soon.
Taking a whole-person, whole-population approach to measuring productivity and other predictors of workforce performance (vs. a “mail-it-in again this year” HRA-based wellness portal approach) helps companies build more effective action plans, and better long-term business results.
“Are you ignoring health costs? And isn’t that dangerous in today’s economy?” Good questions, savvy exec. That’s another cool part of this research – this approach also predicts more about (self-reported) health and well-being than a risk-only approach. Limeade measures health risks as a subset of the many factors that make up the whole human enchilada.
Perhaps the coolest part of all this is that people engage more with technologies and systems that treat them like people – not just BMI and Glucose Level and LDL Cholesterol. And when they do, their companies profit.
