Why Workplace Wellness?
It affects your company's bottom line in many ways.
Here are three key factors:
- Decreased healthcare costs
- Increased productivity
- Better morale
Rising healthcare benefit costs are a significant concern and poor health habits
and unnecessary medical care costs consume portions of our corporate resources as
well as the employee paycheck. The worksite is an ideal setting for health promotion
and disease prevention programs. Employees spend many of their waking hours at work,
nearing 50 hours per week on average. That is why the workplace is an ideal setting
to address health and wellness issues.
Why Start a Company Wellness Program?
Wellness programs help control costs.
An investment in your employee's health may lower healthcare costs or slow the increase
in providing that important benefit. In fact, employees with more risk factors,
including being overweight, smoking, or having diabetes, cost more to insure and
pay more for healthcare than people with fewer risk factors.
An employee wellness program can raise awareness, so employees with fewer risk factors
remain in a lower-cost group. A program can also encourage employees with health
risk factors to make lifestyle changes to improve their quality of life and lower
costs. The payoff in dollars, as well as in quality of life, can have a big impact
on your company's bottom line.
Healthier employees are more productive.
This has been demonstrated in factory settings and in office environments in which
workers with workplace wellness initiatives miss less work. Presenteeism, in which
employees are physically present on the job, but are not at their most productive
or effective, is reduced in workplaces that have wellness programs.
Healthier employees miss less work.
Companies that support wellness and healthy decisions have a greater percentage
of employees at work every day. Because health frequently carries over into better
family choices, your employees may miss less work caring for ill family members
as well. The cost savings of providing a wellness program can be measured against
reduced overtime to cover absent employees and other aspects of absenteeism.
Improve morale and enhanced image for the organization.
A company that cares about its employees' health is often seen as a better place
to work. Those companies save money by retaining workers who appreciate the benefit
of a wellness program and they can attract new employees in a competitive market.
Additional Services We Provide
- Health Risk Assessments
- Disease Management
- Wellness Education
- Lab Screening
- Total Lifestyle Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program