Fit & Healthy Productivity research
Fit & Healthy Business undertake extensive risk assessment profiling of employees, following up with comparative reassessment to determine the improvements to absenteeism rates made by implementing a workplace health and wellbeing program. The research captures physiological health data, body composition parameters and lifestyle and genetic parameters in addition to absenteeism data.
Initial benchmarking data across employees suggests:
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Obese staff incur twice the absentee days as healthy weight rate individuals.
- Employees with large waist girths are at serious risk of CVD and take a 60% increase in absenteeism days.
- Employees with high cholesterol take 15% more absentee days than those in the normal range
- Employees
with blood pressure levels above normal values take 10% more absentee
days than those in the normal physiological range.
- Employees consuming appropriate levels of fruit and vegetables utilize 25% less absentee days than those with a poorer diet.
- Employees that regularly exercised took significantly fewer sick days than those colleagues that were not active.
Reassessment data determines that workplace health and wellbeing programs in Fit & Healthy Business client sites:
- Reduce the levels of obesity in employees by 42%.
- Reduce high risk cholesterol levels (>6mmol/L) by 71%
- Reduce the prevalence of diabetes and pre diabetes amongst employees
- Reduce the number of employees with blood pressure readings outside normal ranges by 29%
- Increase overall lifestyle and health behavior
- Significantly reduce the incidence of cigarette smoking by 42% with the implementation of a QUIT campaign
Across employees engaging in workplace health and wellbeing programs the overall organizational absenteeism rate is reduced by 9.3%.
*Data produced in 2,013 employees receiving health and wellbeing programs and measuring both initial and follow up health assessments 12 months apart, 2007.