Health and well-being are the stock in trade of Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, so it should come as no surprise that the insurer's new $194-million headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, comes equipped with ergonomic workstations, a fitness center and a restaurant that eschews sugar highs by offering low-cal pies.
But this sprawling campus-like facility goes the extra mile—and then some. In a nod to the millions of people it insures, Blue Cross has fashioned a headquarters whose systems not only take into account the welfare of employees, but the overall environment at large—and those who inhabit it.