Oregon Healthy Worksites Toolkit: Putting wellness over illness

Recently, the state of Oregon unrolled a public-private initiative to help workplaces "flip the switch" -- incentivize their employees to stay well.

Google the Oregon Healthy Worksites Toolkit and you'll find a range of strategies that businesses have embraced to engage their employees. Rejuvenation Hardware, for instance, which has stores in Portland and Seattle, will open its third store soon in Los Angeles; hence Rejuvenation made a gentle game out of metaphorically "walking to Los Angeles."

Employees logged their miles on foot. Some lost weight and others got swept up in the camaraderie of exercising together, realizing how much better they felt when they were more active. Read the full article..