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Benefits of Workplace Active Living Programs

There are strong reasons for integrating active living with work:
 
  • Companies who have introduced active living policies say they make good business sense.
  • Employers need to embrace due diligence in today's high-paced work world.
  • Access to physical activity in the workplace and cafeterias with healthy foods are working conditions that help attract the best and the brightest workforce.
  • People spend a great deal of time at work.

Research suggests a link between active living/fitness and individual employee well-being. Healthier employees result in:
 
  • lower health-care costs;
  • lower turnover rates;
  • reduced absenteeism;
  • fewer medical claims;
  • higher productivity;
  • improved employee morale.

On the other hand, organizations that have physically inactive employees may have higher costs.
Fatigue, inattention, accidents and low productivity are more common among inactive employees. Fit employees miss fewer days of work, have fewer accidents, are less prone to the harmful effects of stress, and have higher job satisfaction than non-fit ones.
 
Stress is playing an increasingly important role in workplace illness and sick days. One of the ways organizations can help employees manage stress is to help them to be physically active in and around the workplace.

 

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