![]() 8 The existence of social relations among employees and managers is often put forward as a reason why WHP could be successful, yet so far research on what motivates employees to use WHP has paid little attention to the fact that the workplace is a social arena where employees influence each other's attitudes and behavior. Research has shown that social ties such as family members, friends, and neighbors contribute to the adoption of healthy behavior. We argue that workplace social relations hold the key to this paradox. This article contributes to better understanding why relatively few employees make use of WHP, despite the benefits to their health and well-being. 3,6,7 This means both employers and employees miss out on the benefits of WHP. 3–5 The average uptake of WHP is however low (around 33% on average) and there is large variation between organizations in the proportion of employees that use WHP. 2 WHP reportedly improves both employee health and productivity. The workplace is a promising place for preventive health activities because adults spend a majority of their waking day at work and social structures are in place that can encourage and support employees to make use of WHP. 1 Examples include healthy food in the worksite cafeteria and on-site fitness facilities, which facilitates employees in adopting a healthy lifestyle. Many organizations offer worksite health promotion (WHP), which consists of combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve employee health and prevent disease. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. Organizations should pay special attention to the social context in the workplace, by highlighting WHP use is common and employees value a healthy lifestyle. The authors report no conflicts of interest.Įthical considerations and Disclosure(s): The Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Utrecht University) Advisory Committee on Ethical Issues has declared this study to be in line with ethical requirements.Ĭlinical significance: Our results show that especially colleagues are important for WHP use among employees. ![]() ![]() This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n. van der Put, MSc, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, PadualCH Utrecht, The Netherlands ( ). Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (Ms van der Put, Dr Mandemakers, and Dr van der Lippe) Interdisciplinary Social Science: Public Health, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (Dr de Wit).Īddress correspondence to: Anne C. ![]()
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