The Health And Wellness Challenge In Workplaces

To make the most of wellbeing programs, employers first must accept two key truths:

1)   Employees are overwhelmed by wellbeing challenges

In many workplaces, people often sit for long periods during the day. Recent Australian research has shown the importance of avoiding prolonged uninterrupted periods of sitting time, as it may undo the benefits of regular moderate-vigorous physical activity¹.

Activities as minimal as standing rather than sitting and increasing the number of breaks have been shown to result in substantial increases in total daily energy expenditure and resistance to fat gain¹.

Aeonic implements varied programs to suit the company’s individual needs.

2)   Employers are in a unique and prominent position to help workers get engaged, educated and empowered about improving their overall wellbeing

Through wellbeing programs, employers can be drivers of change. Aeonic provides grounded data and sound plan design for this.

Through our programs, we provide meaningful and measurable wellbeing ROI for employers in areas around engagement, loyalty, and productivity.

Aeonic lays the groundwork for building and implementing wellbeing programs that drive meaningful change for employees and truer, more sustainable ROI for employers.

We provide the tools and resources to provide your company with a competitive advantage.

Recognise gaps in your business that can be filled with new products and services.

Nullify The Case For Doing Nothing

We can stand on more than a decade’s worth of data to measure the devastating costs to employers from:

Chronic Disease

Chronic diseases result in a significant economic burden because of the combined effects of health-care costs and lost productivity from illness and death. Estimates based on allocated health-care expenditure indicate that the four most expensive disease groups are chronic – cardiovascular diseases, oral health, mental disorders, and musculoskeletal – incurring direct healthcare costs of $27 billion in 2008-09. This equates to 36% of all allocated health expenditure².

Presenteeism and Absenteeism

Absenteeism directly costs organisations approximately $578 per employee per absent day. Counting direct costs alone, the annual cost to the Australian economy is in excess of $44 billion.

Meanwhile, the costs of presenteeism (productivity losses as a result of workers attending when unwell) are in the vicinity of $35 billion – more than 40% of organisations in our survey say they are counting its cost³.

Disability

In 2015, 2.1 million Australians of working age (15-64 years) had a disability⁴.

When confronted with the hundreds of billions of dollars that these combined costs drain from Australian companies, it can be difficult to focus on anything else. Still, there are also significant dollars associated with problems that don’t generate as much buzz, but can affect employers in ways that are just as significant:

• Headaches
• Strains and sprains
• RSI
• Lack of mental motivation
• Mental illness

Uncover and Unlock Well Being’s Real ROI

Clearly, sitting idle is not an option for employers.

Aeonic provides:

Significant business results through recognition as an employer of choice

Employees/prospective employees are more likely to stay with/seek an employer that promotes wellbeing; 64% of workers who are satisfied with health promotion say they plan to stay a minimum of five years at their company⁵.

Further, when health and wellbeing are actively promoted, companies are 2.5 times more likely to be viewed as a top performing organisation⁶.

More satisfied, productive, and profitable employees

Regardless of your business model (public, private, non-profit), your people power your business. To do that in the most efficient and effective way, you need them showing up for work healthy, engaged, productive, driven and satisfied. Employee satisfaction, behaviour and turnover in a given year all can be used to predict the following year’s profitability, and also have a strong correlation to customer satisfaction⁶.

Better integration with other corporate priorities

Aeonic Wellbeing programs can seamlessly go hand in hand with other business initiatives, such as workplace safety through injury-prevention and ergonomic programs. Both wellbeing and ergonomics initiatives are linked to lower injury rates, absenteeism/presenteesim, and workers’ compensation, plus higher productivity and morale. Investing in wellbeing can naturally flow into positive gains for similar employee priorities.