Back to category: Business

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

WORKPLACE HEALTH MAKES GOOD BUSINESS

Preventive care and health promotion programs offer companies productive ways to invest in their employees' health and the health of their bottom line at the same time. Helping employees establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle has significant benefits to the individual and the organization, including lower health care costs and reduced stress. Companies who benefit from wellness programs rnage from small businesses to large corporations. Their decision to implement these programs is based on statistics such as: · The average stress-related workers' compensation claim costs employers $13,339. · The average overweight person costs a company $401 a year. (Obesity costs the U.S. $52.64 billion per year.) · Healthy employees have shown increases in productivity as high as 25 percent. Preventable illnesses make up approximately 70 percent of illnesses and associated costs in the U.S. According to the 1999 Nation...

Posted by: Arianna Escobar

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.