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Wellness Works

Promoting a healthy lifestyle in the office has proven benefits, including lower health care costs. Can’t afford free gym memberships? There are many low-cost options.

When they launched Drizly in 2012, Justin Robinson and Nick and Cory Rellas couldn’t offer a formal wellness program as a recruitment and retention tool. So the trio, whose Boston-based e-commerce company sells beer, wine, and spirits to consumers through local retailers, improvised. In 2014, employee feedback led to their starting competitive kickball and volleyball teams. Later, they offered staff a small monthly credit through the Expensify app to defray health- or fitness-related costs. That lasted until the end of 2017, when the company decided to redirect those funds to

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