Did You Know? | Helping small business promote wellness

• Only 46% of small businesses (< 500 employees) offer health promotion programs, while 92% of larger employers do, according to a new national survey.
• Small businesses employ 59 million people, more than 47% of the US workforce, where workers spend on average more than one-third of their day, creating opportunities for health promotion.
• Wellness professionals who create or run comprehensive workplace health promotion programs can adapt CDC assessment, planning, and implementation tools to meet small businesses’ needs.