Talking about money can be uncomfortable, stressful and maybe even taboo in many circles.
But McKee Foods Corp., one of Hamilton County’s biggest companies with more than 6,000 employees, wants its workers and their families to talk and learn more about money to take some of that stress and discomfort out of their financial planning.
Shawn Pellington, compensation and benefits manager at the Collegedale-based bakery famous for Little Debbie Snacks, said McKee decided last year to add financial well-being courses to its decades-old wellness initiatives for its employees.
“Wellness has always been part of our corporate culture, but over the past five to seven years we’ve recognized that our wellness offering was not complete in that it didn’t have a focus on financial wellness and financial fitness,” Pellington said.
So over the past three years, McKee evaluated several financial planning offerings for workers and ultimately decided to pick a program developed by SunTrust Bank known as Momentum onUp.