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Study finds that workplace wellness programs may not be saving employers much money

Associated Press • The Barnes-Jewish Hospital is seen Monday in St. Louis. Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you’ll never puff on a cigarette. But a new study raises doubts that workplace wellness programs save the company money.

WASHINGTON—Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you’ll never puff on a cigarette. But a new study raises doubts that workplace wellness programs save the company money.

In what’s being called the most rigorous look yet inside the we...

Published: 03/05/2013