Research tells us what we already
intuitively know about how to be healthy.
Helping people with their
health and well being saves businesses money. And, if you
provide care and support to those around you, the effects are
positive for all concerned. The person feels valued and respected,
and you as the giver of kindness feel good about yourself. This
always brings greater harmony.
Companies of integrity who are
willing to stand out from the crowd and find new ways to do
business, based on compassion, co-operation, and support will be
the workplace leaders in our changing world.
The old way isn't working - it
has to change to reflect not only in the way we treat others and
our self but in the way we treat our earth.
The rewards and benefits for
business owners are assured of success given the research
available, making it a win win situation.
BENEFITS FOR YOUR
COMPANY
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- Being pro-active in this area saves your
company money from reduced sick leave
and compensation claims
- Healthier happier staff enhances recruitment and retention
rates
- Healthier happier staff are more productive
- Enhances your company's profile influencing future employees
and customers
- Improved sense of wellbeing makes
for a more harmonious work environment
- Increases employee loyalty and commitment
- Brings a positive experience into the work place
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BENEFITS FOR YOUR
EMPLOYEES
- Employees are empowered to promote and protect their own
health
- Health and wellbeing information, facilitates a more harmonious
work environment
- Improves staff morale
- Provides nurturing which addresses human desire and needs
- Nurtured people are more loyal
- Improves employee perception of their employer
- Provides positive contrast to normal work day
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RESEARCH DATA
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Workplace stress is costing the Australian economy $14.81
billion a year
Stress related presenteeism and absenteeism are directly costing
Australian employers $10.11 billion a year
3.2 days per worker are lost each year through workplace
stress
Medibank Private Aug 2008
Lifestyle related diseases stemming from tobacco, alcohol and
obesity, have taken over infectious diseases such as HIV and
malaria to become the greatest killer of people worldwide.
These diseases are largely preventable - World Health
Organisation 2011
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According to the U.K.
Department of Health’s publication ‘Health, Work and Well-being –
Caring for our future’.
“Every £1 spent on promoting health in the
workplace could lead to a £2.50 saving for businesses” and “a
saving of 34 per cent in absenteeism costs”.
Add to that the Health and Safety Executive estimating that
musculoskeletal disorders were responsible for 9.5 million lost
working days in 2005/6, around 13.8 million working days lost in
2006/7 due to work-related stress, depression and anxiety, and that
stress and back pain cost the British economy £3.7 billion and £5
billion per year respectively, the cost of poor employee health to
a business is increasingly evident.
Results of "Impact of a Workplace Stress Reduction Program
on Blood Pressure and Emotional Health in Hypertensive Employees"
suggest that a brief workplace stress management intervention
can produce clinically significant reductions in BP and improve
emotional health among hypertensive employees. Implications are
that such interventions may produce a healthier and more productive
workforce, enhancing performance and reducing losses to the
organization resulting from cognitive decline, illness, and
premature mortality.
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Mike Atkinson, and Dana Tomasino, B.A.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2003;
2008 National Accounts for
Wellbeing bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet - is the
most comprehensive international analysis of well being ever
produced. It resulted in evidence based actions to improve
well being.
The 5 Ways to Wellbeing as Policy Levers for
Change
1. Connect
2. Be active
3. Take notice
4. Keep learning
5. Give
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RESEARCH ON Measuring the Benefits of Corporate Health and
Wellbeing Initiatives
1 Crowther,Thwaites & Zhou (2004) ITR
CLICK HERE FOR
RESEARCH ON Australian National Workplace Health Project:
Strategies for Gaining Access, Support and Commitment
Health Promotion Journal of Australia 1999-9
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Simple kindness to one’s
self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force
of all. It produces no backlash, has no downside, and never
leads to loss or despair. It increases one’s own true power
without exacting any toll.
Dr. David Hawkins M.D.
Ph.D.
Power verses Force
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FURTHER
RESEARCH ON GROWING HEALTH ISSUES
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DEPRESSION
Depression results in more absenteeism than almost any other
physical disorder and costs employers more than US$51 billion per
year in absenteeism and lost productivity, not including high
medical and pharmaceutical bills. According to a 2004 Rand
Corporation report
80% of depressed people are not currently having any treatment
National Healthcare Quality Report”, 2003.
Depressed individuals tend to have very low self esteem, be
pessimistic, and exhibit reduced motivation and slow thought
processes. Diener 1984
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ALCOHOL misuse 'costs Australia $36bn'
KEY POINTS-
Almost 3/4 of adult Australians have been negatively affected by
someone else's drinking.
Heavy drinkers have cost others around them more then $14
billion in out-of-pocket expenses, forgone wages and productivity,
and more than $6 billion in intangible costs.
More than 70,000 Australians are
victims of alcohol-related assults every year
Research
by AER Foundation Aug 2010
2.5 million people die from harmful
use of alcohol each year - World Health
Organisation/research.
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OBESITY Australia now has the dubious distinction
as the fattest nation in the world. More than 9 million
adults are now rated as obese or overweight and could cause 123,000
premature deaths over the next two decades. In terms of a
public health crisis there is nothing to rival this.
Australia's Future "Fat Bomb" IDI Heart and Diabetes
Institute
About 40% of the Australian population did not exercise enough
with 64% deemed overweight or obese. World Health
Organisation 2011
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ADDICTIVE/ COMPULSIVE BUYING (Oniomania) is on the
increase with no known cure although suggested treatments range
from reading self-help books to anti depressants and anti-psychotic
medications. A survey of 2513 people published in 2006 American
Journal of Psychiatry claimed symptoms included a preoccupation
with buying, an irresistible or senseless impulse to buy and
shopping for longer than intended. Typically suffers can't afford
their purchases and, in some cases, don't even want them.
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RELATIONSHIPS Numerous studies
support our assertion that good relationships are the most
important healing mechanism in mood disorders. See Roy F
Baumeister, and Mark R Leary, “The Need to Belong: Desire for
Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation,”
Psychological Bulletin, 1995, 117(3)497-529. Press release: Caring
Relationships Crucial to Healing
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COMPLEMENTARY
THERAPY A 1998 Stanford University study
found that 69 percent of participants have used some form of
alternative therapy to treat a health problem. The National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National
Institutes of Health, estimates that 36 percent of adults use some
form of CAM, not including prayer, and women and people with higher
education levels are more likely than the population at large to
seek such treatments
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