Invest in your workforce and they'll invest in you

According to the CIPD, healthy people mean a healthy business. And it stands to reason - if you look after the well-being of your staff and show them that they are genuinely valued and appreciated, then the return will come back threefold. It's a 'win-win' situation.

"Forward-thinking organisations recognise that managing their people is just as important to success as control of financial and capital resources. Some organisations are moving towards a promoting a concept of 'wellness' as a preventative measure to address employee health. Through an investment in people, organisations can achieve excellence and maintain a leading edge.

The 2007 CIPD Absence management survey showed that sickness absence accounts for 8.4% of working time - equivalent to 8 working days for each employee each year. The average cost of sickness absence is £659 per employee per year, with absence being one of HR professionals' top three concerns." Source - CIPD website

What causes absence?

"The main causes of sickness absence for manual and non-manual employees have been identified as:

Manual	Non-Manual
Minor illness*	Minor illness*
Back pain	Stress
Musculo-skeletal injuries	Musculo-skeletal injuries
Home/family responsibilities	Back pain
Stress	Home/family responsibilities
Recurring medical conditions	Recurring medical conditions
Injuries/accidents not related to work	Other absences not related to ill-health

*Minor illness includes colds, flu, stomach upsets and headaches.

The number of employers reporting an increase in stress-related absence continues to rise according to our latest absence survey." Source - CIPD website

Many of the above reasons for absence can be helped with the aid of massage therapy. Body Belle can visit your workplace as often as you wish and help improve levels of staffing, boost staff morale and lower the levels of stress-related illness and/or absence.

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