{"id":2961,"date":"2017-10-18T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:50:52","slug":"contec-inc-earns-working-well-recognition-for-promoting-optimal-employee-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/contec-inc-earns-working-well-recognition-for-promoting-optimal-employee-wellbeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Contec, Inc. Earns Working Well Recognition for Promoting Optimal Employee Wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athletix-Products-300x117.png\" alt=\"Athletix Products by Contec\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2824\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athletix-Products-300x117.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athletix-Products-200x78.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athletix-Products.png 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Athletix Products by Contec<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPARTANBURG, S.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Contec, Inc., Parent company to Athletix Products was recognized by Working Well for achieving Platinum status in the following five categories by meeting best practice standards in promoting well-being in the workplace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Financial Wellbeing;<\/li>\n<li>Incentives &#038; Communication;<\/li>\n<li>Nutrition &#038; Food Environment;<\/li>\n<li>Risk Assessment &#038; Outreach;<\/li>\n<li>Tobacco Free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To receive these awards, Contec has been committed to meeting best practice standards in promoting physical, emotional, financial and educational wellbeing through evidence-based strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have designed and implemented comprehensive health and wellness programs and incentives targeted at creating a culture of good health,\u201d says Elaine Smith, Director of Human Resources. \u201cFrom our on-site health clinic, expanding our fitness facility, and locally grown mobile food market, to offering continuing financial and physical education seminars during work hours, we are supporting healthy choices. We also encourage employees to use their paid community service hours because we understand the importance of improving the health footprint of our community as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working Well helps employers develop a strategic plan to impact employee health by focusing on policy, systems, and environmental changes, which are often low or no cost. Working Well aims to help employers create a sustainable culture of wellbeing by using effective, evidence-based best practices to create healthy worksites.<\/p>\n<p>Research demonstrates that employees performing at optimal health can have a major impact on an employer\u2019s bottom line by contributing to lower healthcare costs, less absenteeism, higher productivity, and improved morale. Healthy employees perform better and are more productive and more engaged than their unhealthy peers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur employees are a top priority,\u201d says Jack McBride, CEO. \u201cWe\u2019re not done. We will continue to find new ways to help employees be the healthiest they can be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPARTANBURG, S.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Contec, Inc., Parent company to Athletix Products was recognized by Working Well for achieving Platinum status in the following five categories by meeting best practice standards in promoting well-being in the workplace: Financial Wellbeing; Incentives &#038; Communication; Nutrition &#038; Food Environment; Risk Assessment &#038; Outreach; Tobacco Free. To receive these awards, Contec has been committed to meeting best practice standards in promoting physical, emotional, financial and educational wellbeing through evidence-based strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[334,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}