Skip to content
  • Software
    • Overview
    • HR Management
    • Payroll & Taxes
    • Time & Attendance
    • Benefits Admin
  • Who We Serve
    • Overview
    • Retail
    • Non-Profits
    • Food Service
    • Healthcare
    • Manufacturing
    • Partners
    • Franchise
  • Client Experience
    • Client Stories
    • Happy Client Methodology
    • Reviews
    • Support Center
  • Resources
    • HR Pro Shop
    • Payroll Pro Shop
    • Webinars
    • Calculators
    • eBooks
    • White Papers
    • Wage & Tax Portal
  • Pricing
  • Book a Demo
  • Login
  • Take a Tour

PrimePay

  • Software
    • Overview
    • HR Management
    • Payroll & Taxes
    • Time & Attendance
    • Benefits Admin
  • Who We Serve
    • Overview
    • Retail
    • Non-Profits
    • Food Service
    • Healthcare
    • Manufacturing
    • Partners
    • Franchise
  • Client Experience
    • Client Stories
    • Happy Client Methodology
    • Reviews
    • Support Center
  • Resources
    • HR Pro Shop
    • Payroll Pro Shop
    • Webinars
    • Calculators
    • eBooks
    • White Papers
    • Wage & Tax Portal
  • Pricing
  • Book a Demo
  • Login
  • Take a Tour
Employee Management
Aug 02, 2020

Tips for a Healthy Work Environment

PrimePay Favicon violet logo icon on white background By: PrimePay

An important question to consider, as a CEO or manager, is: what value does a healthy workforce have in relation to my employee’s productivity and organization’s bottom line? Encouraging your employees to be healthy not only increases their productivity, but helps them to have a healthier/longer life. Not to mention – the less employees you have getting sick, the less they’ll use their insurance, and the more you’ll save on the premiums.

Below, we’ve put together some tips for fostering a healthy lifestyle in the office.

Encourage your staff to be active during the workday.

Allow your staff to take calls while walking in the park. Encourage them to take a long lunch (and work late) to accommodate for time in the gym during the workday. Making it easier for your employees to exercise eliminates a number of the excuses people think of when trying to justify their choice to be inactive. Some of the benefits of exercise include: controlling weight, improving mood, boosting energy, combating various health concerns and disease, promoting better sleep, etc. If your employees move their bodies they are likely to be healthy, productive, energetic contributors to your team.

Make exercise at gyms financially prudent (or even profitable).

Some of the ways you can achieve this objective include lowering health insurance premiums for employees who workout for a set number of hours at a gym or reimbursing employees for gym memberships up to a certain dollar amount. For example, provide your employees with a number of “company supported” health clubs and offer them $20 off their monthly premium if they use the gym 20 hours a month. Another example could be offering reimbursement gym memberships up to $250.00 a year as an employee perk. You could also bring various trainers into your office throughout the month and encourage your employees to take group fitness classes to better their health and improve office morale.

Offer stability balls or standing desks for employees to use, instead of office chairs.

This may seem like a small tip, but the studies of adverse effects due to static sitting in standard office furniture are numerous. Some of the adverse effects of prolonged sitting in customary office chairs include: hunching of the spine, pressure on spinal discs, over-stretching of ligaments, etc. Standing desks are a great option for employees whose joints are achy as a result of endless sitting. Conversely, sitting on a stability ball provides health benefits as it burns more energy (calories), requires core stability, and forces “active” sitting.

Make exercise, dieting, and weight-loss fun.

Friendly competition is no stranger to the standard American workplace. Make workforce health and well-being a competition in itself. Create teams and offer a various number of points for things such as the number of hours spent being at a gym, choosing to take the stairs, selecting healthy, high protein, low fat, options for lunch and snack, etc. Breed camaraderie and understanding amongst employees that choose to participate. If possible, create some sort of compensation for the winning team. This could include losers bringing in lunch on the Friday after the competition concludes, etc.

White PrimePay favicon on transparent background

Pricing

  • Pricing
  • Talk to Sales
  • Payroll Promo
  • HR Promo

 

Our Platform

  • PrimePay HR
  • PrimePay Payroll
  • PrimePay Benefits

 

Features

  • Benefits Administration
  • Time & Attendance
  • Position Management
  • Performance Management
  • Employee Self-Service
  • On-Demand Pay

Who We Serve

  • Client Stories
  • Client Reviews
  • Manufacturing
  • Healthcare
  • Retail
  • Non-Profits

 

Partners

  • Partners
  • Financial Advisors
  • Banks
  • Brokers
  • CPAs

 

Compare Us

  • Vs. Paylocity
  • Vs. Paycor
  • Vs. BambooHR
  • Vs. ADP
  • Best HR Software

Resources

  • HR Pro Shop
  • Payroll Pro Shop
  • Blog
  • eBooks
  • Webinars
  • White Papers
  • HR Glossary

 

Tools

  • Calculators
  • Forms & Calendars
  • Wage and Tax Portal

Company

  • About Us
  • Leadership
  • Contact Us
  • Press
  • Careers
  • Make a Referral!
Icon from G2 encouraging audience to 'Read our reviews on G2'
PrimePay's circle Happy Client Methodology icon with yellow smily graphic in center
AICPA SOC circle button
Copyright © 2023 PrimePay, All rights reserved. | NMLS No. 1952666
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Transparency in Coverage