"Fit Employees Mean Healthy Profits"
Keeping your work force active in a
regular fitness program is one of the
healthiest executive decisions you
can make. The main benefits to
employees and employers include:
increased productivity, improved
morale, reduced stress, and decreased
health care costs: and reduced
employee turnover. All of which
leads to dramatic, positive return on
your investment on the company's
fitness program.
Increased Productivity
Active employees are more productive
and enthusiastic in their jobs.
Studies have proven that they have
more energy, make better decisions
and use their time better.
Purdue University tested 80 people over
a nine month period and found that
the exercisers improved their
decision making results by 70% and
NASA discovered that their regular
exercisers had improved stamina,
increased overall work performance
and enhanced concentration.
Improve Morale, Reduce Stress and
Decrease Health Care Costs
Healthier employees have proven to
make happier employees, regular
exercise in your work force will
automatically add a social atmosphere
and improve overall morale.
Energized employees promote
positivism, show less absenteeism and
are proven to have reduced anxiety,
tension and stress.
Pepsi-Co found its corporate fitness
program and a 300% return on
investment, due mainly to the
decrease on health care costs. Their
fitness program dealt with the needs
of a healthier lifestyle before
having to deal with the consequences
of an unhealthy work force.
Get the Best Staff and Reduce
Employee Turnover
More and more of the best jobs
candidates are asking about their
prospective company's proactive
health care benefits. Fitness is the
number one concern of the most
progressive career shoppers as they
balance the value of one company over
another.
Texaco found that those who
participated in its corporate fitness
program were 13% less likely to leave
than other employees. - Corporate
Statistics
Band of America realized an annual
return of $6 for every $1 spent on
its health promotion program. -
American journal of health promotion.
1993
Heath club membership is the benefit
most job seekers want from their next
employer. It outpaced all other
benefits, including flextime, use of
company car, tuition reimbursement. -
International Search Firm, Lee Hecht
Harrison
The Travelers Insurance Company
claims that it receives a $3.40
return on every dollar it invests in
health promotions, which yield $146
million in total corporate savings
per years. - Journal of occupational
medicine, 1992
General Motors found that employees
in their physical fitness program had a 50% reduction in job grievances, a
50& reduction in one-the-job
accidents, and a 40% reduction in
lost time. - Commercial magazine,
1998
General Electric found that employees who exercised were absent from work
45% less than employees who did not
exercise. - Business Health, Nancy
Coe Bailey, 1990
