It is becoming increasingly obvious to businesses around the world that employee health is not only beneficial to the employees but also to the employers.
Reports from Forbes, the Integrated Benefits Institute, Healthways and more have shown that employee illnesses are accounting for huge losses in productivity.
Loss of production due to absenteeism is reported byForbes to cost U.S. companies as much as $227 billion each year.
While that is spread out over thousands of companies and can be easy to dismiss on a personal level, when tallied, it makes for an impressive figure and one that can and should be changed.
