Imagine that we suspect that the results of the Illinois Workplace Wellness study are due to...

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Imagine that we suspect that the results of the Illinois Workplace Wellness study are due to the specific demographic make-up of faculty and staff at the University of Illinois. We think that a more representative sample of workplaces will show that Workplace Wellness Programs (WWPS) have beneficial effects anyway. We select 100 different workplaces spread out over 10 different US states, that represent a number of different employment sectors. We then conduct the same study, following the exact same protocol as the Illinois Workplace Wellness study. We find that in only 1 out of 100 of the workplaces we studied WWPs had beneficial effects. In the other 99 workplaces, WWPs had no effect on employee wellbeing. This shows that the results of the Illinois Workplace Wellness study are: Imagine that we suspect that the results of the Illinois Workplace Wellness study are due to the specific demographic make-up of faculty and staff at the University of Illinois. We think that a more representative sample of workplaces will show that Workplace Wellness Programs (WWPS) have beneficial effects anyway. We select 100 different workplaces spread out over 10 different US states, that represent a number of different employment sectors. We then conduct the same study, following the exact same protocol as the Illinois Workplace Wellness study. We find that in only 1 out of 100 of the workplaces we studied WWPs had beneficial effects. In the other 99 workplaces, WWPs had no effect on employee wellbeing. This shows that the results of the Illinois Workplace Wellness study are: