EMPLOYEE HEALTH - YOUR COMPANY’S HUMAN CAPITAL ASSET

WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM AN EMPLOYEE? 

Results.  You want the person to be present.  Be productive.  Be a performer.  To do this, the employee needs to be healthy.  And part of the health equation  -  manage stress.  Stress can have  significant impact on a person’s health if it’s not managed.  Everything from heart disease to high blood pressure to fatigue that leads to lack of focus and poor decision making,  higher absenteeism, lower presenteeism.  According to the Journal of Occupational Health & Environment and also  Gallup Attitudes in the American Workplace survey, 19% of absenteeism, 40% of turnover and 50% of healthcare expenditures are attributable to workers who report high stress.  And lots of people report stress on the job.  The Gallup Attitudes in the Workplace survey reported that 80% of workers feel stress on the job.  These are the folks who are taking care of your valuable customers.  Yikes!!!

 "Stress in America continues to escalate and is affecting every aspect of people's lives - from work to personal relationships to sleep patterns and eating habits, as well as their health.“    Dr. Russ Newman, Exec Dir, APA.

 

Please notice I did not say eliminate stress.   We need work to be challenging, fast-paced and always pushing forward, solving problems – it’s the only way to make a business successful in this competitive environment.  So if the work environment is going to be stressful and we know that people’s family/home life adds another layer of stress, what can we as employers realistically do about it?

 

TEACH EMPLOYEES HOW TO MANAGE STRESS

Managing stress is a critical job skill – as important as computer skills or basic accounting.  Proactive Partners can help with a solution – Perform Under Stress, Reach for Success workshops.  They take a practical approach, teach practical skills to productively respond to stress.  Performance-focused techniques can be used “in the moment”, not on a mountaintop in Tibet.  And the workshop content is grounded in peer-reviewed and published research on stress.  Visit www.beproactive.com to get information. 

 

HELPING EMPLOYEES MANAGE STRESS ALSO MAKES SENSE FOR THE BUSINESS BOTTOM LINE

 

Health care costs in the U.S. now exceed $2 trillion each year.  Probably the majority of your company's health expenditures are for stress-related disorders including depression.  Go ask your benefits team about your healthcare costs that are a result of stress.  You may be surprised by the numbers.  Teach people to manage stress, you will get health benefits and cost savings.  The team at Proactive Partners can show you the data - visit www.beproactive.com to get in touch.

 

FREE THOUGHTS.

This really is an important issue and I hope that I have provided some helpful perspective.  But the good news is that these are free thoughts  - and they are worth every penny you paid for them!! 

 

Comments

[Stress Management Speaker]

I very much agree... that in this fast paced and competitive lifestyle .. the stress levels are continuously rising... and implementing stress management sessions in the office is becoming very popular these days ... More and more employers are realizing that their employees need to manage stress better.. since it is them contributing to their business growth in the long run...

[excel development]

If anyone has a link to a website with statistics or fact about how businesses benefit from offering their employees heath insurance and retirement plans please let me know.

[krav maga]

Reduce stress can actually help prevent premature hair loss. Stress is known to be one of the main reasons for the rapid hair loss in men and women. When a person undergoes stress, his body was all systems go out of condition and there may be some changes in the production of hormones, which can influence the healthy growth of hair.

[How to Relieve Stress]

I totally agree with you that by helping your employees to learn how to manage the stress in their lives the more productive they will be so it truly is a win-win situation.

Here is a useful resource for anyone to discover stress management techniques;

http://howtorelievestresseasily.com/category/how-to-relieve-stress (Copy and paste this address into your browser's address bar in case the link is not clickable)

[Molly]

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