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Control your Health Coverage Costs, and Expenses: Employees with more health risk factors (including being overweight, smoking, having diabetes, etcetera, cost more to insure and pay health coverage costs for as opposed to healthy people. So a wellness program helps create healthy habits for your employees in order to curb the risk of disease, or harmful habits.

Improved Productivity for Your Employee(s): Healthier employees are more productive, and efficient. With health-centric workplace wellness programs, and the wellness incentives that go along with them, your employees will be motivated to become healthier. This is in contrast to unhealthy employees, who usually create the problem of presenteeism or absenteeism.

Reduce Workers’ Compensation, and Disability Expenses: Once again, healthier employees have a lower chance of workplace injury, illness, and/or disability. This pays off in a big way for employers, as they can see lower insurance premiums, and also a lowered cost of recruiting and training related to replacing injured employees. The CDC found that employers can save as much as 25% on these expenses after implementing a successful workplace wellness program.

Reduced Stress Levels: A strong wellness program can help employees developing coping mechanisms for stress through healthy behaviours such as exercise, meditation, peer support, and much more. Reducing the stress levels for your employees leads to a more easy-going workplace culture, and enhanced team productivity (stress has a ripple effect, both ways).

Improved Teamwork: By participating in wellness programs together, specifically the team based activities, employees can build a sense of camaraderie. Taking part in wellness activities outside of work can also help with team bonding, which will result in improved communication and collaboration in the workplace.

Boost Team Morale & Make Recruitment Easier: Showing your employees that you care by investing in their health will play a huge impact in improving employee morale. This will also make retention easier, so a successful wellness program will help you tackle turnover. Companies that have successfully solved the turnover problem are usually easier to recruit for as well. The commitment to employee wellness will indicate a high quality company culture to any potential candidates, so your company will have better chances of recruiting top talent in a competitive market. Employees who experience positive changes, and healthier behaviours through your company wellness program will feel more loyalty, increased productivity, and consequentially a stronger, less expensive workforce.



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