Yes. Employers that are aggressively implementing health and productivity practices are seeing lower costs, reduced lost time, and improved worker health.

More programs, better results. Employers that implement a greater number of health and productivity practices are more successful at achieving desired outcomes. For example, 57 percent of companies that have 20 or more practices report better employee understanding of health improvement, compared with just 9 percent of companies with fewer than 10 practices. Similarly, twice as many employers with 20 or more practices said their strategy is effective at increasing employee satisfaction with their benefits compared with employers that have fewer than 10 practices.

Employers that integrate areas such as workers' compensation, disability, sick leave and family medical leave also are more effective at achieving desired outcomes. These outcomes include reduced lost time, improved workforce health and lower costs.

However, there is a large gap in employer efforts to hold workers accountable for their health and productivity. While 74 percent of employers believe that their employees should be held accountable to a great extent for improving, managing and maintaining their health, only 4 percent think their employees are held accountable. The organizations that work most closely with employees to encourage healthy behaviors will ultimately be most successful at closing this gap.