Former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said there's a direct line between adding yoga and raising the minimum wage for his employees.
Former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini considers raising the company's minimum wage to $16 an hour in 2015 one of the proudest moments in his career. Inin February, he admitted the decision was influenced by a surprising source: his yoga habit.In 2004, Bertolini got into a skiing accident that left him with multiple neck fractures and a permanently disabled left arm. He was alive, but had to deal with chronic pain.
When Bertolini first introduced the idea of bringing yoga and mindfulness lessons to Aetna, he says his chief medical officer told him,"Mark, this is voodoo medicine. You're crazy; we all think you're crazy. Just because you do it doesn't mean everybody else has to do it." The only way he would budge is if there were proof it worked.
Bertolini said the most interesting aspect of the study for him were highlights from the journals the experiment's participants kept. Some employees had severe financial difficulties as their main driver of stress. Bertolini said he was surprised to find that people Aetna employed couldn't make ends meet.
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