Our company invests in the good health of our people with the hope of building a culture that encourages and empowers you and your family members to take charge of health care decision making and spending.

Facts that might inspire you to make healthy changes:

• A significantly overweight employee can have benefit expenses that are 20 percent higher than a person who is not.
• A tobacco user can have medical expenses that are 15 percent higher than tobacco-free employees.
• Employees with untreated depression may have health-related expenses as much as 70 percent higher than other employees.
• Individuals with a chronic illness like diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis, cost three to five times as much as those who are healthy.
• Health care costs related to smoking in the United States top $150 billion each year.

Additional Resources:

UPSer’s and their spouses can take a health assessment that offers an in-depth assessment of your lifestyle and factors that impact your health status. This will give you an opportunity to see your health in a big picture. Doing so can help you prioritize the kinds of health changes you may need to consider, and which health changes you may be ready and confident to make.

Click here for more information on the Health Assessment.

Solutions is the UPS Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (1-800-336-9117) and includes confidential, 24-hour access to trained professional counselors. Examples of issues that may benefit from the services available through the EAP anxiety, depression, grief and loss, child or senior care, relationship or marital issues, alcohol or substance abuse, finding colleges, bereavement, financial or legal concerns, parenting challenges, work-related problems and conflict resolution.