Employee Fitness Programs

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Break Pal - Employee Fitness

Employers are realizing a great return on investment from employee fitness programs. Keeping your employees healthy has a financial return and might be just what you need to make your company more productive, reduce health care costs, and make your workplace a happier place

Keep them Fit, Keep them Happy

The most important aspect of any workplace wellness program is the participation rate. they don't do much good if they don't get used.

That's why the new shift in social network based employee wellness programs are gaining so much exposure. Break Pal is a great example of this. Users exercise at predetermined intervals and score points for exercising. Office safe /www.squidoo.com/office-desk-exercises">Desk exercises are delivered right to the desktop. they take only a few minutes and the employee is back to work. Refreshed and ready.

Systems such as Break Pal can be a great stepping stone to fitness as they work for even the most sedentary employees. Every one is accountable to their peers on the system. Like having a workout buddy right in the office.

The other advantage of social network based programs is the cost. they are affordable at any company size. Workplace wellness programs are otherwise difficult to implement at a small company.

Try one out. You'll be amazed at the benefits.

Top Ten Reasons Your Company Should Have an Employee Fitness Program

Most business decisions are based on what effect they'll have on the bottom line. While employee fitness programs used to be considered a perk it is now realized that they are much more than a regular employee benefit. They can have one of the biggest impacts on the bottom line of any program you may institute. Especially programs such as Break Pal - Fitness at Your Desk
  1. Employee fitness programs have been proven to have a ROI of between $3 and $15 per dollar spent
  2. Employee fitness programs will dramatically reduce health care costs. Health care costs are crippling today's businesses. Sedentary workers are at huge risk and will cost the employer due to a variety of health issues related to their sedentary style work.
  3. Healthier employees have a lower rate of worker's comp claims
  4. Healthy employees help create a healthy company image.
  5. Healthy employees are more productive. Studies show that employees that exercise at work actually have a 20% net productivity increase. They make back the time they spent working out and then 20% on top of that.
  6. Exercises increases endorphins. People with high levels of endorphins are happier. Happier employees are easier to manage.
  7. Employees who exercise at work have lower stress rates.
  8. Healthy employees have lower turn over rates. Saving the company money.
  9. Short exercise breaks at work give the mind a break. This results in higher mental functioning and therefor better work.
  10. An employer can feel good about herself knowing she is doing the right thing for their business

Employee Fitness is Catching on

It wasn't very long ago that exercising at work would have been looked down upon. But it won't be long before it's actually expected. Liz makes a good point with this video.
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News on Employee Fitness Programs

Employee fitness has been in the news a lot lately. Here are recent articles on employee fitness programs
ExxonMobil and Healthyroads Fuel Up With Top Marketing Awards for Superior ...
... outstanding health and wellness promotional campaigns targeted to ExxonMobil employees. The award-winning materials were jointly developed to help drive enrollment in ExxonMobil's "Culture of Health" wellness program, administered by Healthyroads.
Bally Total Fitness Gets Its Mobility Strategy Into Shape
By Jim Nash The health and fitness industry is target-rich for enterprise mobility, dense as it is with customer-employee interactions that can be deep and last months. Bally is already building its mobility muscle even as its competitors are still ...
18 employers, thousands of employees take on the EBN Financial Fitness Challenge
?We see [it] as a way to increase the financial wellness of a segment of our employee population, as a way to pilot test a financial wellness program for employees, and as a way to determine the interest and desire of employees for additional ...

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