Ocean State Job Lot uses analytics to target employees’ real needs

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019
2,000-4,999 EMPLOYEES #7: Ocean State Job Lot Inc.


CEO (or equivalent): Marc Perlman
Number of employees: 2,426

ONE SUREFIRE WAY to add some juice to a company’s wellness program is to get the CEO out of his office and send him off to burn some calories in, say, a 500-meter rowing competition with employees.

That’s what Ocean State Job Lot Inc., the discount retailer, did at this year’s Wellness Fair. Employees loved seeing CEO Marc Perlman finish his 500 meters and then holler encouragement to others.

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Much of the company’s wellness program development, however, takes place in front of computers. Working with BetaXAnalytics, Ocean State Job Lot uses data to determine employees’ health needs and to adjust programs.

“For example,” the company said, “if we find a particular region is overusing emergency rooms versus urgent care centers [for nonemergency treatment], we focus on that region.”

In the past year, at least one worker’s life changed for the better after a lunch lecture about colonoscopies encouraged the person to take action, resulting in removal of precancerous growths.

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