Improved Productivity and Morale

Corporate wellness programs tend to improve overall morale, as participating employees feel better both about themselves and their company. We agree that it is not easy to measure moral as a reduction in costs but a positive and fun place to come work with happy staff can be seen and felt.

Employee productivity has a considerable impact on a company and it’s profitability. Healthy employees work better and therefore provide gains for the company.

Benefits that employers may see from wellness programs include a reduction in absenteeism and workers compensation costs, increases productivity and improved employee morale.

Worksite Wellness: 20-year Cost Benefit Analysis and Report: 1979-1998
University of Michigan Health Management Research Centre. 1998

“Enthusiastic participation in work-site wellness programs can yield a variety of health benefits: decreases in body fat; increases in aerobic power, muscle strength, and flexibility; enhanced mood state; and reduced medical insurance claims, with associated decreases in absenteeism and increase in productivity.”

Shephard RJ. Do Work-Site Exercise and Health Programs Work?
The Physician and Sports Medicine. February 1999

“Healthy companies meet the pressing demand for new products and services by fostering creativity and collaborative work. Healthy companies more capably maintain customer relationships because employees earn and experience communications, intimate support and real empathy with customers. Because people are choosing firms more for the culture they have created than for the pay package they are providing, healthy companies attract and recruit the best and the brightest.”

Moskowitz DB. The bucks behind the Wellness boom.
Business & Health. February 1999

At both a British Columbia Hydro Plant and the Toronto Life Assurance Company, lower turnover rates occurred among those employees who participated in their companies’ health programs.

Downey, Angela M.
Fit to Work Business Quarterly.
Winter 1996

Source: 1981, 1995 D.W. Edington Univ. of Michigan, Health Management Research Centre