Paychex Honored as a Best Employer for Healthy Lifestyles®

Award recognizes the company’s innovative wellness program that helps employees be as healthy as they can be

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For the fifth straight year, Paychex has been honored by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) for its ongoing commitment and dedication to promoting a healthy workplace and encouraging its employees to pursue and maintain healthy lifestyles. Paychex, a leading provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions, received a Gold Award for its Active Health company wellness program.

In addition to the Gold-level honor, NBGH selected Paychex as the sole recipient of its Special Recognition Award: Best Communication Tactics, citing the company’s “innovative, technology-driven campaigns [that] result in high employee engagement and continual support for a culture of health.”

“Part of what makes Paychex a great place to work is our commitment to helping our employees live healthy lives,” said Laurie Zaucha, Paychex vice president of human resources and organizational development. “Employees tell us they love our wellness program, the teamwork and camaraderie it promotes, and the fact that it has helped them improve their health while having fun. We’re very proud to be recognized as a leader in employee wellness.”

Paychex’s nearly six-year-old Active Health program has continued to evolve over the years and includes a nationwide network of more than 150 volunteer employee wellness champions, dedicated websites, interactive online tools, work-site wellness events such as flu shots and health screenings, a best-in-class tobacco cessation program for employees and their eligible dependents, and more.

In 2013, Paychex took the next step by rolling out an innovative program that harnesses the power of social networking and worksite camaraderie to help employees get healthier together. Teaming up with ShapeUp, Inc., the leader in social wellness, Paychex delivers a wellness experience that offers year-round online social networking, friendly competition, the convenience of mobile technology, fun, and on-the-spot incentives to build and maintain healthy behaviors.

Within just three weeks of launching the new ShapeUp platform earlier this year, nearly half of Paychex’s 12,000+ employees had signed up as registered site users. As ShapeUp noted in its blog, Paychex is “one of the most innovative companies around, and they’ve managed to engender one of the most active, engaged, and social workforces out there. They have set many ShapeUp records in the past year alone!”

Helen Darling, president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health, commented, “We are proud to honor Paychex for its ongoing commitment to providing lifestyle improvement programs that encourage healthy lifestyles for their employees. Paychex is among an elite group of organizations that are leading the way to promoting healthy workplaces and lifestyles.”

About Paychex

Paychex, Inc. (NASDAQ:PAYX) is a leading provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses. The company offers comprehensive payroll services, including payroll processing, payroll tax administration, and employee pay services, including direct deposit, check signing, and Readychex®. Human resource services include 401(k) plan recordkeeping, section 125 plans, a professional employer organization, time and attendance solutions, and other administrative services for business. A variety of business insurance products, including group health and workers' compensation, are made available through Paychex Insurance Agency, Inc. Paychex was founded in 1971. With headquarters in Rochester, New York, the company has more than 100 offices serving approximately 567,000 payroll clients as of May 31, 2012. For more information about Paychex and our products, visit www.paychex.com.

About the National Business Group on Health

The National Business Group on Health is the nation’s only non-profit, membership organization of large employers devoted exclusively to finding innovative and forward-thinking solutions to their most important health care and related benefits issues, and to being the voice for larger employers on national health care issues. The Business Group, whose 363 members include 66 of the Fortune 100, identifies, develops, and shares best practices in health benefits, disability, health and productivity, related paid time off, and work/life balance issues. Business Group members provide health coverage for more than 55 million U.S. workers, retirees, and their families. For more information, visit www.businessgrouphealth.org.

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Becky Cania, 585-387-6337
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Source: Paychex

Released June 18, 2013