Key Takeaways
- Businesses with health and wellness programmes for employees are likely to attract talents and retain employees
- With happier and healthier employees, businesses can reduce both absenteeism and presenteeism
- Increased employee engagement helps boost business productivity and profitability
A thriving business needs thriving employees. Staff costs are a business expense and must be managed carefully; but bear in mind that your business cannot succeed without employees who function at their best. How can you, as their employer, enable that?
The best way to view your employees is not as expense line items, but as productive assets. Do not look at the costs of healthcare and employee benefits programmes as expenses.
Instead, think of such expenses as investments that will reap rewards for your business down the line.
Here are four reasons why you must take care of your employees' health so that they can take care of your business.