Corporate Wellness
Economic Benefits of Exercise
It has been no secret that the current era has been marked by intense international competition for the marketplace. Every company which wishes to survive and expand must deal with with the fact that other companies, other nations have competitive products to offer, and at competitive prices.
What factors mark the company which is able to succeed in the in the current climate of business? The factors are many, but they include the following:
- The ability to attract and retain the best, the most qualified, the most success-oriented, and the most productive employees;
- The ability to maintain productivity;
- The ability to keep downtime to a bare minimum, especially that caused by absenteeism;
- The ability to forestall the effects of stress on key employees, especially those at top management level, stress which produces both serious illness and lessened situation effectiveness.
Each of these factors is a human factor, and except in the most automated of situations, each is an important problem requiring a solution applicable to people in a work situation.
A well run health fitness program will help you protect your most precious and costly investment... your employees. Major corporations such as the Ford Motor Company, DuPont Inc. and Reynolds Metal have found that hard to replace senior executives are a greater asset to the company if they are healthy and in a low risk profile.
The best person for the job may sometimes come with a high risk profile such as a smoker and overweight. Unfortunately, you cannot get that person's skills without also getting his/her health problems. His/her health problems can be expensive to you. Just one fatal heart attack can cost a company over $100,000. The best way to insure your return on investment is to have an established health and fitness plan.
