Challenge and Benefits of WHP in small businesses.
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Challenge and Benefits of WHP in small businesses.
Challenge and Benefits of WHP in small businesses.
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Challenge and Benefits of WHP in small businesses.
Workplace Health programs are crucial for all size of businesses, but not all people are convinced that it really helps, in the sense of its efficacy and privacy, but through the doubt, it clearly benefits employers and employees in various ways.
First of Health and Wellness, is directly equal to having active employees and the health cost of the companies are relatively lower, a case study has proven that companies with wellness programs have relatively reduced medical costs (Henke et al 2011).
Wellness programs lead to employees who are more productive mainly because, cognitive benefits such as focus and memory are directly linked with physical activities. Employees who technically participate in health and wellness programs improve health and productivity, that means more productivity and less spent by the company in productivity costs (Mitchell et al 2013).
Employees who are physically active are healthier than inactive employees, whereby inactivity recently found to be more chronic than smoking by Lancet issue in 2012. Whereby this can be achieved by at least an hour of exercise in a day, that directly results in the lower risk of diseases that are chronic and improve weight loss.
Finally, a small business may benefit from the tax incentive of workplace wellness programs that have been implemented by states such as Indiana, Mississippi, and Massachusetts.
Challenges
The first challenge would be convincing the employees who don’t believe in wellness and health programs since it is not mandatory having part of the workplace not fully in the program will lead to uncertainty in the workplace.
The other challenge is that finding health and wellness professionals who charge manageable fees is hard due to the scarcity of such professionals.
The other challenge is dealing with elderly employees, who are more conservative would be a challenge as they are used to the normal sedentary workplace routines.
Works Cited.
Henke, R. M., Goetzel, R. Z., McHugh, J., & Isaac, F. (2011). Recent experience in health promotion at Johnson & Johnson: lower health spending, strong return on investment. Health Affairs, 30(3), 490-499.
Mitchell, R. J., Ozminkowski, R. J., & Serxner, S. (2013). Improving employee productivity through improved health. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 55(10), 1142-1148.
