Why corporate wellbeing?
- "When health and well-being are promoted at work, employees are 8X more likely to be engaged and organizations are 3X more likely to be productive." Source: World Economic Forum.
- “The single highest driver of engagement today is whether or not workers feel that their managers are genuinely interested in their well-being. Less than 40% of workers feel such support nowadays." Source: Towers Watson.
- Millennials are more likely than all other generations to say they would like help from their employers.
- 64% of employees are unable to devote even an hour a day to improve their health and well-being through activities like cooking a healthy meal or going to the gym.
- Employees spend more than half their waking hours at work. Then they use a computer for almost 2 hours per day outside of working hours. One-third of employees also work on the weekends.
- Stress costs employers in Switzerland CHF 5 billion per year. Good managers know that employee health is a business decision!
- 70% of the European and American people are sedentary or achieve less than 30 minutes of moderately intensive daily exercise.
- 80% of premature heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are preventable.
- For every 1 euro spent on health management programs, absenteeism costs fall by 2.3 euros.
- Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Switzerland. Every year 40,000 new cases are recorded.
- Almost half of all employees feel stressed and suffer from anxiety disorders. The Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Switzerland found out that work intensification is the greatest threat to mental health.
- Attracting and retaining older workers will be of increasing importance to businesses as the older population becomes the largest available and unexploited resource.
- One in ten people in Switzerland once tried to commit suicide. Every second person states to have thought of it once.
- 41% of the Swiss population are overweight or obese. This proportion is 51% for men and 32% for women.
