With a rise in health care costs and an ageing population in Singapore, studies show that workplace wellness programs save employers money every year in health cost savings while providing a strategic advantage for employee satisfaction and retention.

Since our last blog on problems with virtual fitness classes, we have conducted more than 200 virtual programs for small, medium, and large companies. Leveraging on our experience, we would like to share 3 more challenges our clients faced and how we’ve tackled them to ensure the best experience for the companies’ wellness committee when organizing their employees’ health programs virtually.

Technology solves problems but also has its issues as well. With our experience conducting virtual health programs, these are our solutions to provide the best services for our clients.

You worked so hard from Monday to Friday 9 to 6, received your hard-earned salary at the end of the month but ended up spending it to fix your aches and pain caused by the long hours of bad posture and muscle tightness caused at your desk. Is it worth it? Here are the top 5 stretches you can do at your desk to help prevent your hard-earned money from flying to the masseuse or TCM.

We all feel uncomfortable when we step out of our comfort zone and try something new. However, this is also when we are far from our element and get to experience and learn the most. Remember that one time when you were pleasantly surprised by something you tried out and even found yourself liking it?

The same applies to trying out new fitness classes.

Mindfulness is actually simpler than what we think it is. It is the practice of being completely aware of whatever is happening in the current moment, without judgement. To be mindful, all you have to do is to slow down, focus on a single task, and notice what is happening around you mentally and physically.

Health and fitness need not be a costly affair! To encourage more people to lead an active and healthy lifestyle, HPB has come up with many free and funded initiatives for individuals and corporate.

We are an approved vendor under the WOW and SME Health+ program where we provide our services to companies who wish to engage their employees and utilize the available funding at the same time.

With a huge variety of fitness classes offered now, we are spoilt for choices. We know that it can be quite overwhelming to choose what type of classes to attend first or by which order is best for beginners. Using four popular fitness classes as an example, I am going to share with you how to categorize them and what will benefit you depending on your fitness goals and fitness level.

Exercise has proven to improve productivity, reduce chances of falling sick, reduce stress and increase feelings of happiness. Companies can sign up for our corporate health programs and utilise available fundings to get their employees to stay active and healthy.