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...focused on giving employees incentives to stay healthy. Some 60% promote preventive care through wellness programs, including smoking cessation and health-club discounts. "More than ever before, companies are seeing the link between good health and productivity," says Beth Bierbower, vice president of product innovation for insurance provider Humana. "So they're engaging employees more on what their personal needs...
...Humana offers customers several wellness components in their plans. One includes a point system, designed by British firm Virgin, in which a pedometer records an employee's movements. Each step, with extra credit for exercise activities, is converted into points that can buy music, sports equipment and even airline tickets. At Illinois-based International Truck and Engine Co., a similar program has its workforce racing CEO Daniel Ustian to better health. A quarter of its 17,000 employees put in 27 miles a week...
...grueling human experiment. "We have never had an experiment before that has required such emotionally and physically exhausting participation on the part of the spouse," says George Annas, a professor of health law at Boston University and an authority on patients' rights. He notes that the heart program at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville "actually requires that you have a family" and that the family's willingness to provide support is one criterion used in selecting patients. But, he asks, reflecting a growing concern in the medical community and elsewhere, "What are we doing to these families...
Some argue that grand classicism must be reserved for public buildings. A refutation of that theory is the absolute beauty of Michael Graves' headquarters for the Humana corporation in Louisville. A dense collage of lush textures and elements, novel but never freakish, the highly sculptural tower conveys the joy of architectural invention. Not since the late 1950s and the monuments of the International Style has there been a high-rise as satisfying...
...Planet Aid, clothes are shipped down in bulk from Canada, and employees pick through them on site to decide what stays and what goes. All of the clothes here are by donation, since Planet Aid is part of the non-profit Humana People to People, an aid organization that runs teaching, HIV/AIDS and sustainable development programs in Africa and Central America. What you’ll find here are quirky pieces mixed in with generally modern, basic items. This is a good place to go if you want clothes that are fairly straightforward and cheaper than new ones, particularly...