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Article: Overcoming employee skepticism about health risk assessments.
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- Employee Benefit News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Wellness experts joke that it's probably not a good idea to have the company's CFO conduct an employee workshop on health risk assessments.
The image of a corporate number-cruncher talking about electronically retrieving personal health information will make some employees question the organization's motives. Some workers might refuse to give their information because they doubt it will be kept confidential, or they think the employer or the insurance carrier will use it to deny coverage.
Hewitt Associates, an HR consulting firm, found that employees and employers have different perceptions of corporate involvement in helping the workforce stay healthy. ...