Corporate America wants more prevention
Corporate America wants more prevention
Stress ranks high among Fortune 1000 concerns
A national survey of Fortune 1000 companies found that 90% of human resource executives believe employee health is very important to business, yet only 40% believe corporate America does a good job managing the health needs of employees. Before developing disease and case management products and services for your corporate clients, you should consider those and other findings of a national survey that reveals the workplace health concerns of the nation’s largest employers.
The survey of 231 executives was commissioned for the Corporate America Health Summit 2000 conference, a health care conference focusing on the relationship between employee health and business performance sponsored by the Disney Institute, held recently in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Cardiovascular disease, stress, and depression outranked allergies, musculoskeletal problems, addiction, and obesity as health concerns for the nation’s best performing corporations.
Key survey findings include:
• Respondents reported that the top three issues facing human resource executives are attraction and retention of workers (51%), maximizing work force value (19%), and managing human resource-related costs (17%). Executives indicated that managing health risks plays an important role in each of those issues. In fact, 50% of respondents rated managing health risks as "critical" for maximizing work force value.
• More than 60% of respondents rated managing health risks to maximize work force value "very/moderately important" for managerial (62%) and line workers (66%).
• Respondents reported that their top three perceived causes for lost production due to absenteeism are cold/flu (64%), stress (60%), and musculoskeletal conditions (36%).
• More than 70% of respondents reported that managing stress (76%), cardiovascular disease (74%), and addiction (71%) was "absolutely critical/very important" to maintaining a healthy work force.
• Respondents rated stress (91%), depression (84%), and cold/flu (83%) as having the largest impact on employees’ productivity.
• Among employee health-related behaviors, respondents ranked smoking (76%) and an inactive lifestyle (74%) as having "significant or moderate" impact on employee health and productivity.
Executives also identified heart disease, stress, and depression as the three conditions they expect to have the greatest impact on the effectiveness of American workers and executives in the next five to 10 years.
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