Healthy workforce | Prevention rather than cure: managing your 'people-risk' by promoting wellbeing

Could promoting regular activity increase employee engagement and retention, and create a more resilient workforce?

There’s a lot of talk about wellbeing in the workplace, but what does that really mean? To coincide with today’s National Fitness Day, we’ve looked into the topic a little further to highlight how boosting our physical activity can help reduce our health risks and improve our mental wellbeing. Doing these things will create a happier and healthier workforce.

The increasing physical and mental health challenges

We know that being active can positively benefit both our physical and mental wellbeing. It can also help to prevent and manage over 20 chronic conditions and diseases, including some cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression.¹