Corporate Wellness Program

“The Whole is only as good as the sum of its parts”

You have a company that runs like a machine. Risk management, productivity, assets, income, liabilities are all to be considered. If you know your numbers, then you know how reliant you are on the people in your machine. But have you assessed your “human capital” and the level of health, motivation, and happiness of the individuals in your organization? Herein lies the greatest key to success of your company. If your employees are not happy and healthy, not only can you not reach your maximum potential, but it is probably costing you a lot of money.

Where is your weak link when you consider a wholistic evaluation of your company?

Many studies now exist on the money to be saved by having a certain level of health in your employees so that your health insurance costs are reduced. Have you considered though the concept of corporate wellness referring to the overall productivity of your company? If the employees in a company (or parts in a machine for that matter), are not functioning optimally, then the whole operation suffers.

The health and wellness of your employees is directly related to the function of your company. Whether your employees do repetitive tasks, manual labor or are using their mental skills, they will be limited by or excel because of their state of health.

We can talk about reducing absenteeism, but have you thought about presenteeism?

Presenteeism- What is it?

• Presenteeism is defined as lost productivity that occurs when employees come to work but perform below par due to any kind of illness. While the costs associated with the absenteeism of employees has been long studied, the costs of presenteeism is newly being studied.\
• The cost of absenteeism is obvious—100 percent of the worker’s productivity is lost each day the worker is not on the job; the cost of presenteeism is a more “hidden” cost because the worker is on the job but is not accomplishing as much.
• Presenteeism is common. Many workers come to work not feeling well—they work with back pain, allergies, arthritis, and other conditions that can impair their own performance and productivity. Some workers come to the job sick with the flu or a cold, and these workers also perform below par. In addition, contagious workers may infect others, and this could contribute to further absenteeism and/or presenteeism in the business.

Many employees may not show notable signs of physical sickness but are mentally unable to function because of stress or impaired mental function. This impairment is hard to identify, but may hurt your company even more. It is often the result of inflammation and chemical imbalance created by an unhealthy or unsuited lifestyle.

How can Austin Wellness Clinic help?

When you observe true health and wellness you are not simply referring to the absence of symptoms or labels of disease, you are speaking of optimum function and vitality. In applying functional medicine we want to assess current function and then create an environment for optimal function. We don’t stop at treating symptoms and numbers, we enhance performance.

Our program is also more concerned with biomarkers of health than markers of disease. We are concerned with strategies to solve health problems and not simply manage them. We are interested in reducing dependence on medication and supporting the body in its’ natural processes. We have developed strategies to create that reserve of health. We look at biological function and therefore look at and improve mental function at the same time.

If you can help people learn what lifestyle is more suited to their body, you can solve many of the most common health puzzles. We have a successful weight loss program because we focus on improving function of the human body, and we don’t focus on weight since it is just another symptom. Working with many diabetics, heart disease sufferers, mental dysfunctions, cancer support, fibromyalgia and fatigue, ADD, etc., we look for resolution of problems. Our ultimate goal is to have people avoid these diseases altogether.

If you can create healthy and self sufficient people, they will contribute more to your organization and in effect create corporate wellness. You can utilize our services to assess the current health status of your employees using both conventional markers for disease, and also by obtaining biomarkers of health and fitness. From there you can have us educate your people on how to move toward better health and productivity. People with advanced disease processes will be made less of a liability by improvement of their condition.

Informed, sharp, and motivated people are what you want. This is a description of someone who is biologically and physiologically functioning well. You can bank on the motivation of a healthy individual – contact us today!