Weight Watchers at Work

[rn4babies63]

Our hospital has a Weight Watchers at Work Program. The meetings are every Thursday at 12:00. I work on a busy L&D unit and we rarely get lunch, especially at a specified time. We've asked if we could have the flexibility of attending local meetings when unable to attend the one weekly meeting at the hospital and were told no, therefore none of our nurses can join on our unit. Also, when working 12 hr nights, it is unreasonable to expect someone to wake up in middle of your sleep to drive to a meeting at work and come back home when you have to work again that night. Yet, the whole point of the program being available at the hospital is for "employee wellness". If you attend all but 3 meetings, you get 1/2 of your money back.

My question is: Do you have WW at work? If so, are you allowed the flexibility to attend local meetings as well as the hospital's meeting? I'd like to take the information I receive from your reponses to HR so I can validate my argument on this matter.

Thank you for your input.

[kesr]

Yes, I have had it at work; and yes we could get weighed in at local meetings. I never did, but I think the alternate sites gave a voucher or some such for validation. Now it is probably all computerized.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

We offer it in the evening to benefit more people. Talk to the instructor or to HR to see if doing it online would still allow you the cost benefit. Even if not, there is benefit in being healthy.

[tyvin, BSN, RN]

Weight watcher does have an online program and you should be able to access it for credit instead of having to attend the meeting. Weight watchers is great and has helped many people. Many people don't' realize how Weight Watchers works. IMO it's a very good program that helps people make choices about what they eat and how to exchange foods, count protein grams, fiber, etc...

When people eat right their bodies love it and they feel great.