The companies see research-supported benefits, such as:
- Decreased employee turnover
- Recruiting and retaining employees
- Reduced health care costs and medical claims
- Increased employee morale - Increased productivity
Truly Caring for your Employees Imagine 50% of your current sedentary and overweight employees with ongoing health and weight problems successfully engaging in a fitness program. The positive impact on productivity and lower health care costs from this type of healthy success would be tremendous.
Sedentary lifestyle is a primary risk factor for heart disease and numerous other serious pathologies. It is well known that fitness has uniquely positive effects on mental, physical, and social health. Despite this well-established knowledge, over 60% of the world population is not active enough to gain real health benefits from exercise.
Taking a proactive approach to health care is still a new idea for some companies, but in today's times it's imperative. Stress-related illnesses cost employers untold sums in increased absenteeism, more serious medical claims, and decreased insurance availability. All top-performing companies offer health insurance and benefits packages, but such "safety nets" only provide help once employees have already fallen ill and productivity has been impaired. The way of the present and future is preventive stopping ill health before it happens and impacts operations.