Employer Wellness Programs Are a Great Idea—Right?

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3. One size fits all.

That's how programs work.

Otherwise you have 500 programs individually tailored for 100 million people, and need to have bureaucrats--typically not in the top 70% of their graduating class, except for the top level folk--trying to monitor 500 million different options.

And if one person makes one computer entry error, it's national news and people are calling for that person's head on a pike.

The more programs, the more people, the more you're required to be average, which is to say, equal, with everybody else. Welcome to theory meets reality.