Business Case

The health of the nation is a major concern for us all. People in our business are critical to success and are our greatest asset. We spend 60% of our lives at work and therefore the workplace provides an outstanding opportunity to promote health and wellbeing to create a fitter and healthier nation.

Significant benefits can be achieved through the introduction of measured and meaningful health and wellbeing programmes, including:

• Reduction in sickness absence levels
• Reduce staff turnover
• Higher retention rates
• Lower recruitment costs
• Improved productivity
• Increased creativity and innovation
• Fewer accidents
• A happier work environment and workforce

All of these are recognised as key benefits, but the largest epidemic in this area relates to presenteeism.

Presenteeism is the loss of productivity that occurs when employees come to work, but aren’t fully functioning. When compared to absenteeism, presenteeism is considerably less visible in the workplace and harder to quantify.

Fit for Business has successfully worked for a number of years with an extensive range of companies and individuals to improve workplace based health and wellbeing behaviours. We have clients in all three sectors and have developed a range of case studies, testimonials and statistics to evidence the positive impact that Fit for Business can make.

Did you know?......

The cost of presenteeism is nearly 4 times the cost of absenteeism

(Medibank Private, 2007)