Health and Wellness Program
Robin Phillips
CGD 218 Visual Literacy in Business
Health and Wellness Program
Dr. Ashish Godbole
October 9, 2010
Due to the rising costs of health care insurance, it would be very beneficial to employees as well as Companies/Organizations themselves to implement a health and wellness program in work places.
Facilitating a Health and Wellness Program in the workplace is the greatest assessment an employer can make because it would be an investment in their most valuable asset, the employees. With there being more urgency today than ever before, America is under pressure to be productive even as healthcare costs proceed to rise and bombard the most important resource, the employees. Research and data show:
• Health and Wellness in the workplace that contain fitness machinery have lowered employer healthcare expenditure by 20 to 55 %.
• Unnecessary sicknesses make up 70 % of illness expenditure in the U.S.
• The study of Health and Wellness in the workplace indicate that by lowering any one health risk factor, a person’s productivity on the job can increase by 9 % and lower absenteeism by 2 %.
• For every one dollar that a company spends on a Health and Wellness program in the workplace, it receives an average network profit of $3.40 to $7.88 (InfiniteHealthCoach.com, 2008, Health and Wellness in the Workplace).
The achievement of any company/organization relies greatly upon the production and work performance of its employees. The ability to do a job and do it at a high level time and again is significantly aided by Health and Wellness Programs. They focus on the physical health of the employees, ensuring medical requirements and personal health as a main concern.
The implementation of a Health and Wellness Program has been proven efficient in lowering company/organization health care expenditure. Rising health expenditure meant that employers were searching for a way to reduce the cost while sustaining healthy employees. Health and Wellness Programs
CGD 218 Visual Literacy in Business
Health and Wellness Program
Dr. Ashish Godbole
October 9, 2010
Due to the rising costs of health care insurance, it would be very beneficial to employees as well as Companies/Organizations themselves to implement a health and wellness program in work places.
Facilitating a Health and Wellness Program in the workplace is the greatest assessment an employer can make because it would be an investment in their most valuable asset, the employees. With there being more urgency today than ever before, America is under pressure to be productive even as healthcare costs proceed to rise and bombard the most important resource, the employees. Research and data show:
• Health and Wellness in the workplace that contain fitness machinery have lowered employer healthcare expenditure by 20 to 55 %.
• Unnecessary sicknesses make up 70 % of illness expenditure in the U.S.
• The study of Health and Wellness in the workplace indicate that by lowering any one health risk factor, a person’s productivity on the job can increase by 9 % and lower absenteeism by 2 %.
• For every one dollar that a company spends on a Health and Wellness program in the workplace, it receives an average network profit of $3.40 to $7.88 (InfiniteHealthCoach.com, 2008, Health and Wellness in the Workplace).
The achievement of any company/organization relies greatly upon the production and work performance of its employees. The ability to do a job and do it at a high level time and again is significantly aided by Health and Wellness Programs. They focus on the physical health of the employees, ensuring medical requirements and personal health as a main concern.
The implementation of a Health and Wellness Program has been proven efficient in lowering company/organization health care expenditure. Rising health expenditure meant that employers were searching for a way to reduce the cost while sustaining healthy employees. Health and Wellness Programs