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| Staff Health and Wellbeing Staff Engagement and Satisfaction Staff Recruitment and Retention Productivity and motivation Product and Service Quality Brand and Corporate Image Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Business Performance and Profits Corporate Social Responsibility | Sickness Absence Rates Stress Levels Sickness Costs Staff Turnover Training Costs Recruitment Costs (inc Agency Fees) Health Insurance (due to less claims) Liability Cover & Litigation Risk Poor Performance |
If an organisation’s most valuable asset is their employees, then the success of that business is dependent upon employee health and wellbeing. Not only can your staff be your greatest asset, but they can also be your biggest liability, particularly if they are constantly absent from work! By developing a healthy business culture, you have the opportunity to energise and motivate employees and create a vibrant and exciting workplace.
Research consistently shows that healthy employees have more energy, are generally more positive and take less sick days. Recent findings suggest that an unhealthy employee is 20% less productive and twice as prone to illness than an healthy colleague – the equivalent to one day per week! You also have the opportunity of becoming an ‘Employer of Choice’ as staff will immediately recognise you are investing in THEM – a very powerful tool to recruit and retain staff in a competitive and demanding corporate world.
The corporate consequence for failing to recognise employee health and wellness is becoming increasingly significant and will ultimately lead to poor performance individually and collectively. The following issues can all be affected in a positive way by creating a healthy environment at work.