Your employees' health matters

Employers have a lot of things to worry about when it comes to their employees such as salary, production, overtime, health benefits, etc. But one thing that employers should consider, that often goes overlooked, is their employees' health. This article discusses a few reasons why and employer's employees' health matters.

Healthy employees can mean a healthy business

Most employers rely on their employees for their business to be successful. Once businesses are big enough, an employer hires employees to do many of the jobs they may have previously been doing. Because employers rely so much on their employees, an employer should want their employees to be healthy.

In general, healthy employees do better at work compared to unhealthy employees.Healthy employees usually do better work compared to their unhealthy coworkers because they have more energy. And when employees are sick they tend to make more mistakes and do not work as quickly as healthy employees.

Healthy employees also take less sick time. This means that they are at work and have more opportunities to get their tasks done.

Sick employees cost their employer money

A sick employee can cost their employer a lot of money. And the more unhealthy employees an employer has, the more money they will be paying to employ their sick employees. One way that an employer pays for their sick employees is through paid sick leave. If an employer offers sick leave to their employees (which is generally a good idea) they could end up paying many of their employees to be sick while hardly any work is getting done at the work place.

Another way that sick employees cost their employer money is when sick employees come to work. When a sick employee comes to work, they are generally pretty unproductive or at least not as productive as they are when they are healthy. And the work they are able to get done may not be up to the standards that the employer is used to from his or her healthy employees. This lack of productivity and these mistakes can cost an employer a lot of money.

Another cost that an employer may have to endure when their sick employees come to work is that they will spread the illness to other employees. This will mean more sick time taken as well as more unproductive employees and perhaps more mistakes.

If an employer offers health insurance to their employees this can be another thing that can cost them money if they have unhealthy employees. Employees who are often sick, suffer from a long term illness, smoke, or are overweight will cost more to ensure than healthy employees. The more healthy employees an employer has the lower his or her cost of health insurance will be.

Office morale

An employer should understand that the health of their employees effects office morale. Sick or unhealthy employees that suffer from anything from a cold or allergies to heart disease or depression can bring down the happiness level in the office making it an unhappy place to work.

This feeling of unhappiness will soon begin to affect all of the employees in the office, probably including the employer. When morale suffers, the work done by employees will probably also suffer. And the unhappiness can even spread to customers as well, possibly bringing down business in general.