Coreporate Wellness Nj

Organizational Benefits of Employee Health Education COREporate Wellness provides education to employees, specifically on how to improve eating habits, reduce stress and increase healthy lifestyle activities like exercise, your organization will experience the following benefits: • Decreased healthcare costs • Reduced absenteeism • Increased productivity • Increased employee satisfaction • Enhanced workplace community • Improved recruitment and retention of high-achieving employees Examples of Benefits Achieved A study at NASA found that while the productivity of non-exercising employees decreased 50% during the final two hours of the workday, those who had an exercise plan in place worked at full efficiency all day. This represents a 12.5% higher overall productivity level in exercisers as compared to non-exercisers. Studies at Dupont and General Mills, which implemented comprehensive wellness education and programming, found 14% to 19% reductions in absenteeism. General Electric reported an astounding 45% decrease in absenteeism. In a study from the March 2009 issue of the Milbank Quarterly, one company that sponsored a corporate wellness program for 324 of its employees saved over $1 million and saw their participants’ medical costs drop 40% over a three-year period.