{"id":14764,"date":"2014-12-17T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/2014-12-17-memo-to-executives-wellness-boosts-employee-engagement\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T23:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T03:30:39","slug":"2014-12-17-memo-to-executives-wellness-boosts-employee-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/2014-12-17-memo-to-executives-wellness-boosts-employee-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo To Executives: Wellness Boosts Employee Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employee wellness boosts employee engagement, and employee engagement boosts employee wellness. Too often managers either ignore the abundance of research supporting the benefits of employee wellness and employee engagement or think about these two elements of business success as separate initiatives.<\/p>\n

First, a couple of quick examples of how these two human capital investments are related: According to a Gallup study that analyzed unhealthy days over a six month period, workgroups with high employee engagement had 8% fewer unhealthy days than the average, low well-being scores notwithstanding. However, workgroups that were engaged and thriving in their wellbeing had 38% fewer unhealthy days, illustrating the added benefit of a wellbeing focus. Employee engagement by itself improves employee health and is supercharged with the addition of a wellness focus. Also, healthy employees are happier (20% happier than average to be exact<\/a>), and happier employees are better workers and are less likely to turnover.<\/p>\n

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\nIt is imperative for employers to recognize that wellness and employee engagement go together, and in order for organizations to address the employee engagement epidemic<\/a>, they must embrace wellness as a critical component of their engagement strategy. By doing so, they will supercharge their employees and extract meaningful returns on investments, including lower medical costs, turnover, and sick days and higher productivity, employee satisfaction, and business success.<\/p>\n

In addition to the study linking employee wellness and employee engagement, Gallup also conducted a study of the impact on customers that \u201cworkgroups with high engagement and high wellbeing\u201d have. At a professional services company, Gallup discovered that customers who interacted with these workgroups were:<\/p>\n