Do you need a healthier work environment

Are you tired of your employees calling in sick? Do you wish there was something that you can do to help cut down on the amount of time your employees end up calling in sick? If you answered yes to any of the above questions then we actually have good news for you. The good news is that there is something that you can do to help control how often your employees are calling in sick, in fact it might even eliminate all of those sick calls. In order to eliminate those sick calls all you are going to need to do is to create a healthier workplace. Even if you didn't answer yes to any of the above questions you should still consider creating a healthier workplace for your employees.

The first reason why you should create a healthier workplace is because in the long run it is going to save you money. The reason for this is that every time an employee calls in sick your business is actually losing money. In fact it has been proven through various studies that when your employees call in sick it is actually costing your business around $660 per employee in payroll costs.

Another great reason to have a healthier workplace is because of the lack of production that occurs when your employees are sick. And the thing is if you are a small business your employees calling in sick is going to hit you harder than a larger company. For example, a large company is not going to notice one employee calling in sick but if you only have 5 employees that is going to be 20% of your workforce, which means that your production or sales is going to be down by at least 20% when one person is gone.

Perhaps the best reason that you could create a healthier workplace for your employees is because it is actually going to save your business money in the long run if they don't call in sick. It has actually been proven that employees who come into work sick are actually costing your business money each year, in fact according to a study done at Cornell employees who come into work sick each year actually cost their employees an average of $255 per year. The reason for this is that they are not functioning at top speed, which means they are not being as productive as they normally are. Not to mention that when employees come into work sick they are exposing everybody else in the workplace to the same illness. Then what happens next is that the rest of the staff ends up sick and they are not functioning at 100%.

Regardless of why you are going to try and create a healthier workplace environment something that you need to know is that if you don't go about making these changes in the right way they can actually fail. So in order to make this change work for your business you are going to need to understand the difference between transformational change and superficial change. The reason that you need to know the difference between the two is because you can only make this idea work if you can bring about a transformational change through the use of many superficial changes. Basically you are going to need to be involved in this type of change for the long haul, meaning you need to put forth an effort for about three to five years if you want to see the change take shape.