Corporate Clients
Sickness Absence - The Stats
- Average annual level of sickness absence is 8 days per year per employee. (1) - Average annual cost of sickness absence is £598 per year per employee. (2) - Work related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health and is the biggest cause of working days lost through occupational injury and ill health. (3) - The second biggest cause is musculo-skeletal disorders. (4) - Each case of stress related ill health leads to an average of 30.9 working days lost. (5) Sources: 1 & 2 - CIPD Absence Management Annual Survey Report 2006 3, 4 & 5 - www.hse.gov.uk
The Law
Employers have duties: Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 to assess the risk of stress-related ill health arising from work activities. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to take measures to control that risk.
Reducing Sickness Absence
Including the provision of complementary therapies in your Employee Wellbeing Strategy can: Reduce stress levels and thereby reduce stress related sickness absence. Massage and Reiki can lower the heart rate; lower blood pressure; improve circulation; enhance concentration and focus and induce relaxation all of which can engender a feeling of general wellbeing and improve productivity.
Improve musculo-skeletal function and health thereby reducing MSD related sickness absence levels. Massage and Reiki can be extremely effective methods of dealing with MSDs. Touch therapies can ease back, neck and shoulder pain; improve muscle tone; encourage the drainage of waste products from tense and damaged muscles; improve mobility and improve posture.
Reduce staff turnover and enhance corporate reputation. Reducing sickness absence levels can have a direct impact on staff turnover. Reducing turnover and retaining trained and experienced staff improves customer service and reduces training costs. Having a robust and progressive Employee Wellbeing Strategy can make an organisation more attractive to talented and diverse prospective employees and business partners.
How can Bodhi Tree Holistics help?
Bodhi Tree Holistics can help you to bring complementary therapy provision into your Employee Wellbeing Strategy. We provide a range of services which we can tailor to the needs and demands of your business or budget. All treatments are carried out by a fully qualified professional therapist. You might choose to provide treatments to all of your employees at your own cost or you might choose to share the cost with your employees or simply act as a liaison between your employees and BTH, allowing your employees time to receive treatments on-site but at their own cost. You might also choose to give treatments as bonuses or rewards to your employees or at special times for your business. In these circumstances gift vouchers are particularly convenient. You can purchase gift vouchers to give to employees which can be used on-site or in their own time. It's a quick and easy for you to reward employees as well as giving the recipient the freedom to choose from our full range of therapies and services in their own time. You can choose to pay for therapies on a treatment-by-treatment basis or you can commission a therapist to be on-site on a half-day or day rate. You might also choose to book therapies on a treatment-by-treatment basis or for convenience you might choose to make block bookings over a number of weeks. To maintain flexibility and to allow us to tailor a package which suits you we don't have a rigid price list for our corporate services. Please phone on 07748 610 182 or e-mail to discuss package options and to receive a quote.