The benefits of higher productivity, decreased absenteeism and decreased disability claims also helped make the case.
Studies have found that access to mental health services can offset general medical costs, decrease absenteeism, reduce the psychiatric disability claims made by employees and offset court and prison costs.
The control of occupational health hazards decreases the incidence of work-related diseases and accidents and improves the health and morale of the work force, leading to decreased absenteeism and increased worker efficiency.
The center is also where Deepak Chopra — a well-regarded mind-body expert and author — has recently initiated his concept for "workplace well-being," a group wellness program aimed at corporate customers that purports to decrease absenteeism, increase productivity and promote greater vitality and mental health.
Because the current analysis showed increased work productivity and decreased absenteeism for patients with UC who were treated with multimatrix mesalamine, use of this treatment could potentially reduce some of these indirect costs.
This analysis provides the first results showing improvements in the impact of patients' UC on multiple aspects of work-related outcomes, including decreased absenteeism and increased work productivity, following treatment.
Businesses that offer flexible hours, retain key dedicated employees, gain increased productivity, decreased absenteeism, and decreased turnover, all which adds savings to the bottom-line (Entrepreneur magazine, 6/4/2006).
In both cases, forgiveness was linked to increased productivity, decreased absenteeism (fewer days missing work), and fewer mental and physical health problems, such as sadness and headaches.
This can decrease absenteeism from school, infections and gradually lead to a reduction in mortality rates linked to diarrhoeal diseases.
