Workplace wellness programs have been set up for the employees of paper mills and hospitals.

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National Stress Awareness month launches on Capitol Hill this week, as healthcare, business and agency chiefs recognize National Workplace Wellness Week with a number of panel discussions.

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Coincidentally or not, when the recession hit in the career chaos economy of 2008, the House and the Senate passed resolutions recognizing the importance of workplace wellness.

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If employers continue to rush to buy workplace wellness programs, they will soon find themselves doing what the health care system itself has done for so long, to its great detriment: consecrating standard practices without clear evidence drawn from sound analytics.

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Jonathan Harrison, for example, CEO of the B Corp Emerge Financial Wellness, wants to create a new asset class called the workplace loan, which he believes is a sustainable way to move millions of under-banked and unbanked workers into the financial mainstream.

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