Companies are buying into wellness programs in a bigway—especially financial wellness—and offering substantially largerfinancial incentives to employees and even their significant othersto woo them into participating.

That's according to the eighth annual survey on corporate healthand well-being from Fidelity Investments and the National BusinessGroup on Health, which finds that companies are increasinglyrealizing how financial wellness impacts employee's overallhealth and acting accordingly.

Not only are some 84% of companies now using financial securityprograms, such as access to debt management tools or student loancounseling, in their well-being strategies—up from 76% lastyear—but financial security programs are the third most popularoffering, after physical well-being programs (95%) and emotionalhealth programs (87%).