Eight Key Trends Impacting Employee Wellbeing in Workplaces

One in two Americans experiences back, neck or shoulder pain, or another musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) in any given year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the National Health Interview Survey. That translates to over 252 million adults who are in pain. And despite the population with MSD conditions remaining relatively constant, the economic cost of MSD medical claims has doubled in the U.S. over the last decade.

MSD care remains one of the top three cost drivers in the U.S. health system, consuming one-sixth of employer-sponsored plan dollars and costing $600 billion to the U.S. economy.

Part of the cost is that people with MSD pain missed 8.2 days of work, more than double the average workers