Healthiest Employees: 2,000-4,999 Employees | #5. Ocean State Job Lot
CEO (or equivalent): Marc Perlman
Number of employees: 2,305
Ocean State Job Lot in North Kingstown, a discount retailer, employs people in many locations at 131 stores from New Jersey through New England, including 15 in Rhode Island.
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The company’s Choose Well program spreads information and helps with fitness by partnering with existing groups. OSJL co-sponsors the Rhode Island PurpleStride Pancreatic Cancer Action Network walk. Hundreds of its employees have participated.
American Cancer Society has been a guest presenter to talk about how to quit smoking, while OSJL offers a discount on health insurance for nonsmokers.
In a partnership with StayFit, OSJL has held four-week fitness challenges at is stores, with strong participation. Real Appeal, a virtual weight-loss program, opened in spring 2017, achieving an average weight loss of 4.3 percent by 89 participants. This past spring Choose Well added a new diabetes-prevention program, Vida Health, for eligible workers and their families.
A healthy thought:
‘From day one we wanted the wellness program to be available and useful to all.’
Sarah Perlman, Human resources generalist, Ocean State Job Lot
