Uplifting Benefits 
Productivity UP
Fit employees are 12.5% more productive.
NASA found that while productivity of non-exercising office workers decreased 50% during the final two hours of the work day, exercisers worked at full efficiency all day. This amounts to a 12.5% difference in productivity.
Ref: Fielding, J.E., Getting Smarter and Maybe Wiser, American Journal of Health Promotion, Volume 11, 1996.
Uplifting Benefits Skills & competency UP
Fit workers make 27% fewer errors.
A respected Swedish investigator found in a study thatfit workers committed 27% fewer errors on tasks involving concentration and short-term memory as compared to unfit workers.
Ref: Sjoberg, H. Physical Fitness and Mental Performance During and After Work. Ergonomics, 1983:23, 977-987.
Uplifting Benefits Presenteeism UP
Well workers reduce sick leave by 14%.
A two-year study by The DuPont Corporation of the effect of its comprehensive health promotion program on absences among workers reported that blue collar employees had a 14% decline in disability days.
Ref: Bertera, R. The Effects of Workplace Health Promotion on Absenteeism and Employee Costs in a Large Industrial Population. American Journal of Public Health, September 1990, 1101-1105.
Uplifting Benefits 
Profitability UP
ROI on wellness programmes is 3:1.
As part of its research, PWC conducted a survey on wellness programmes amongst multi-national employers (representing more than 3 million employees worldwide). A key finding in regard to profitability was that corporate wellness programmes have been shown to provide upwards of a 3–to–1 return on investment.
Ref: Working Toward Wellness: Accelerating the prevention of chronic disease. This report is a joint initiative of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the World Economic Forum. See www.http://www.pwc.com/extweb/pwcpublications.nsf(accessed 18 August 2008).
Uplifting Benefits Retention UP
Cost of attrition = 18 month salary.
Anecdotal evidence supports that wellness programmes promote employee retention. Attrition is a costly issue given the following statistic: A Canadian study found that average costs to an organisation are 18 month’s salary for every management professional who leaves and six months pay per hourly employee.
Ref: Towers Perrin, Global HR Consultantswww.towersperrin.com (accessed 18 August 2008).
Uplifting Benefits Employee engagement UP
60% of employees rate wellness programmes as a good reason to stay.
A survey by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses in 2003 found that 60% of employees regarded wellness programmes as a good reason to remain with their current employer. Other studies have shown that wellness programmes raise staff morale, enhance work-life balance and encourage people to stay with their current employer.
Ref: Working Toward Wellness: Accelerating the prevention of chronic disease. This report is a joint initiative of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the World Economic Forum. See www.http://www.pwc.com/extweb/pwcpublications.nsf(accessed 18 August 2008).
Uplifting Benefits Resilience UP
Reducing stress in the workplace could have a 60% reduction on employee absenteeism.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work reported that over half of the 550 million working days lost annually in the United States from absenteeism are stress related and that one in five of all last minute no-shows are due to job stress. A 1997 three-year study conducted by one large American corporation found that 60% of employee absences could be traced to psychological problems that were due to job stress.
Ref: Direct quote from The American Institute of Stress at http://www.stress.org/job.htm(accessed 18 August 2008).
