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How to cut the costs of lost productivity from unhealthy employees

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The success of a company depends largely on the quality of its service or product and how well their employees perform their job.When employees come to work ill, or stay at home and miss important days, productivity is compromised and you lose money.So how do you cut the costs of lost productivity from unhealthy employees?The answer is simple right, maintain healthy employees.With a number of different employees and a number of different colds, virus's and germs out there, it makes it difficult to control how healthy an employee is.Believe it or not you can help; bottom line is a healthy employee is a productive employee.

Acknowledge Bad Habits and Educate
Because most of the cost from unhealthy employees is lost productivity we need to figure out a way to help employees see that their habits are costing the company money and bad for themselves.Educating employees is the first step in gaining back lost productivity and helping them change their habits.Everyone has some sort of bad habit they need to kick whether it is smoking, junk food, or not exercising.Habits control the way employees perform duties at work and those habits can lead to lost productivity and a poor health.Think about holding some healthy living classes that touch on some basic healthy living topics; good nutrition, regular exercise, smoking and other abusive substance, diabetes, etc.These are all things that plague the workplace whether you like it or not, and in order to spark a change you have to address the problems.

Promote healthy Living
This is such a general topic that you might find it hard to do.Promoting a healthy lifestyle outside of the workplace is vital to productivity inside the workplace.Employees must know this and you need to be able to prove it.You are going to really do your homework to find statistics and stories to back up what you're saying, as some employees will take your word for it, but most will not.So what's the best way to encourage employees to live a healthy life?You must also do it.Have you heard the expression "Do as I say and not what I do?"It may work on young children, but it doesn't fly with employees so if you expect them to be healthy you have to be the one to take the first step.

There are a number of different ways to promote a healthy lifestyle.
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  • Talk with some local work out facilities and see what kinds of deals or discounts they can give your employees.Employees are more likely to take advantage of something like this if you're chipping in on the bill.So if it's in your financial budget to give your employees that opportunity, then do it.

  • - Vending machines are most of the cause of unhealthy eating habits in a workplace environment.After all, it's a lot easier to go get a bag of chips to much on than it is to run to the grocery store and grab a sandwich and an apple.Talk to the vendors that come in to the company and have them switch out the chips for dried fruit or even better real fruit.Instead of having soda available switch it out for water.

  • - Get employees excited by making it fun.Yes healthy living has its own benefits, but what fun is that.Employees give you their time and effort all day, so give it back to them.Offer some incentives to stay healthy.Some ideas might be cashing out their sick days not used at the end of each month, or free fitness apparel.The sky is the limit with this (depending on your budget of course).

If you can keep your employees healthy you are going to cut costs of lost productivity quickly.If you seriously want to do that, then get to work and motivate them to get started.You are the key.

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