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Healthier Employees, Healthier Bottom Line

Understanding the value of healthier employees and their economic impact on your business.

The U.S. Surgeon General reports that 75% of all illnesses can be attributed to lifestyle-related causes. The report also indicates that 53% of America’s population is classified as “inactive.” The more a business can help employees manage their health and avoid illness and disease, the more it can manage its own healthcare costs each year.
Source: The Economic Benefits of Regular Exercise – IHRSA

 

Why Should I Care About Employee Health?

Thirteen studies that calculated benefit/cost ratios all showed the savings from these programs are much greater than their costs, with medical cost savings averaging $3.48 and absenteeism savings averaging $5.82 per dollar invested in the programs.

Quick Fit provides the advantage that every business seeks… healthier employees.

The Benefits of Regular Physical Activity:

  • Reduces the risk of premature death
  • Reduces the risk of dying from heart attack
  • Reduces the risk of developing high blood pressure
  • Helps reduce blood pressure in people who already have high blood pressure
  • Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer
  • Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety
  • Helps control weight
  • Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles and joints
  • Helps older adults become stronger and better able to move about without falling
  • Promotes psychological well-being
  • Enhances self-image
  • Reduces stress
  • Increases energy
  • Reinforces other positive lifestyle changes, such as a healthy diet and smoking cessation
  • Stimulates creative thinking

What’s the Cost of Doing Nothing?

According to a survey by Hewitt Associates, U.S. companies will pay an average of 9.9% more for workers’ health insurance next year, almost doubling the average cost per employee of five years ago. With medical benefits expenses on the rise, not promoting Quick Fit to your employees is a costly mistake.

While recent U.S. governmental guidelines recommend that all Americans exercise 60 to 90 minutes on most days, it is estimated that more than 60% of American adults are not physically active on a regular basis and 25% of adults are not active at all. Research studies continue to show that moderate amounts of physical activity are beneficial. Even as little as fifteen minutes a day, or 105 minutes a week, can make a dramatic change in an employee’s overall health and a company’s financial health.

 

Quick Fit Products Can Help

Founded in 2005, Quick Fit Products, LLC is a partnership between Rick Bradley and L&T Health and Fitness. Rick is the creator of the Quick Fit exercise program and author of Quick Fit: The Complete 15-Minute, No-Sweat Workout book and DVD. He has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, and regularly conducts fitness seminars for leading organizations. Quick Fit Products can provide your company with the tools necessary for reaping the benefits of a healthier workforce, including reduced absenteeism, lower health care costs, increased productivity and improved employee morale.

Lower Medical Benefits Costs

Participants in a corporate fitness program at Steelcase, Inc., had medical claim costs that were 55% lower over a six-year period than those who were non-participants

Improve Productivity and Morale

At both a British Columbia Hydro Plant and the Toronto Life Assurance Company, lower turnover rates occurred among those employees who participated in their company’s health programs.

Reduce Absenteeism and Disability Claims

A recent study has shown that persons at risk for [high] body mass index (BMI) had other health risks and (used) twice as many sick days as those who were not at risk.

 

Can 15 Minutes Really Make a Difference?

Read the mounting research that says yes it can!