In September, Compuware (News - Alert) Corporation, a technology performance company that provides IT software, services and application performance management (APM (News - Alert)) solutions that deliver peak performance for technologies worldwide, was recognized as one of this year’s winners of Michigan's Best and Brightest in Wellness, as announced on the 101 Best & Brightest In Wellness website.
The Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA), Wellco, CORP! magazine and the Michigan Food and Beverage Association (MFBA) are the presenting organizations for the Best and Brightest in Wellness program, which launched in 2012. Together they identify companies’ strengths and weaknesses in wellness initiatives. They use WellCompanies assessment, which works much like WellCo’s Wellness Positioning System, to track a company’s wellness efforts and identify those that promote a culture of wellness at the worksite to improve the quality of life for employees and foster health-related outcomes.
Wellco is a wellness systems provider that specializes in corporate wellness programs. It provides award-winning, results-oriented strategies to transform a healthy workplace by improving organizational health success in employee wellness promotion.
The Best and Brightest in Wellness is a celebration that is “designed to recognize the accomplishments of the 101 leading businesses,” explained MBPA, an advocacy organization for SMBs in Michigan; it honors those that are making their establishments, “a healthy place to live and work.” In essence, these are winning companies that are committed to a culture that emphasizes health and wellness: They are committed to “healthy employees, healthy families and a healthy community," said Jennifer Kluge, MBPA/MFBA president and CEO.
Compuware is one of Michigan's Best and Brightest in Wellness for 2013; it was amongst winners that earned the award for providing quality and excellence in worksite health promotion. Compuware was chosen for its continued innovation in its wellness programs.
Winning the competition requires meeting significant measures in various categories, including policies, environment, leadership, awareness and motivation, assessment and intervention, incentives and integration, measurement and healthcare costs.
As stated by Tom Anderson, Compuware's director of Wellness and Worklife, the company has a long-standing commitment to the health and wellness of its employees. In fact, as he points out, the corporation has, in place, “Flexible work arrangements, and extensive health and wellness programming… The company actively works to support its employees' work-life balance by offering worldwide wellness programs, state-of-the art wellness and child development centers in its headquarters location… and more.”
With this tactic, as a whole, Anderson said everybody benefits from “the strength and productivity of a healthy, vital and engaged workforce."
Edited by Rachel Ramsey