More and more employers are recognizing the value of keeping employees healthy. Some companies have their own in house wellness programs, gyms or gym memberships. Others offer wellness bonuses to employees. Others provide self-insurance if they have a particularly healthy workforce. McKee Baking Company in Tennessee subsidizes programs in stress control, weight management and smoking cessation.
Advocates of the wellness programs state the programs make employees healthier and happier therefore the employees are more productive. Employees miss less work and need less medical care. Less medical care means lower insurance cost to the company.
What might be an argument on the con side of this issue? What might the skeptics say?