SMALL BUSINESS & CORPORATE WELLNESS

"A workplace health program has the potential to both keep healthy employees in the “low-risk” category by promoting health maintenance, while also targeting those unhealthy employees in the higher-risk categories, therefore lowering overall health insurance costs. A systematic review of 56 published studies of worksite health programs showed that well-implemented workplace health programs can lead to 25% savings each on absenteeism, health care costs, and workers’ compensation and disability management claims costs."

"Mindfulness is about being present in the moment with full awareness. This is the exact opposite of multitasking, which, as business leaders, we often find ourselves doing.

Research shows that worker stress costs employers billions of dollars in lost productivity. Associates, their managers and human resource (HR) professionals should consider employing mindfulness to calm the mind, manage stress, increase worker focus and enable people to get more done in less time. Here are a few tips on how you and your organization can do that."

"The findings presented herein provide evidence for the implications of meditation practice and its association with job performance among Japanese business people. In addition, the study provides information about the prevalence of meditation in this population. Our findings indicate that meditation practice may have positive effects on enhancing multiple dimensions of job performance, including work engagement, subjective job performance, and job satisfaction; these associations are independent of an individual’s demographic characteristics and behavioral risk factors."