Healthy Body, Healthy Mind – So Crack The Whip!
Well, it always takes a study to verify what you already know. But, here’s a new one: A 2008 study from The
University of Bristol concludes that employees are more productive and less stressed on days that they exercise. It’s a shame these findings weren’t circulated and implemented at Telecom France within the last year (the suicide toll has now exceeded twenty – from what psychologists say is management stress, lay offs, and “re-structuring”). So, now employees have no excuse for gathering around a donut tray in the office, but will instead be encouraged, no doubt, to make that a gluten-free bean curd cake that’s ingested between obligatory deep-knee lunges and ab-crunches. All the more reason to rush to work, eh?
Even Japan, famed for its brutal work ethic which claims so many lives there’s a word for it – Karoshi – now has regulations in place that force employees to exercise, and if you’re over forty, you’re obliged to have your waist measured. I’d imagine that probably leads to MORE SUICIDES, but nevermind.
According to a recent CNN article, health incentives are being implemented in the US (can’t imagine why?) with employees gaining insurance benefits and money through proof of fitness, currently being called “the wellness program”. Obviously it’s been recognized that the employer is ultimately winning by having less health-related problems with the staff, not least of which are sick days. This is something that progressive companies like Google have already thought of – their offices festooned with a Gym, poolroom, and fireman poles between floors. They also have a floor layout that encourages people to be less static, forcing them to move from office to office.
The days of chubby employees cloistered behind cubicle walls seem to be over. But, fireman poles? I don’t know how serious you could take a CEO arriving to a meeting like Batman or a stripper with an attaché case. Perhaps that’s a little too progressive?
Well, it always takes a study to verify what you already know. But, here’s a new one: A 2008 study from The University of Bristol concludes that employees are more productive and less stressed on days that they exercise. It’s a shame these findings weren’t circulated and implemented at Telecom France within the last year (the suicide toll has now exceeded twenty – from what psychologists say is management stress, lay offs, and “re-structuring”). So, now employees have no excuse for gathering around a donut tray in the office, but will instead be encouraged, no doubt, to make that a gluten-free bean curd cake that’s ingested between obligatory deep-knee lunges and ab-crunches. All the more reason to rush to work, eh?
Even Japan, famed for its brutal work ethic which claims so many lives there’s a word for it – Karoshi – now has regulations in place that force employees to exercise, and if you’re over forty, you’re obliged to have your waist measured. I’d imagine that probably leads to MORE SUICIDES, but nevermind.
According to a recent CNN article, health incentives are being implemented in the US (can’t imagine why?) with employees gaining insurance benefits and money through proof of fitness, currently being called “the wellness program”. Obviously it’s been recognized that the employer is ultimately winning by having less health-related problems with the staff, not least of which are sick days. This is something that progressive companies like Google have already thought of – their offices festooned with a Gym, poolroom, and fireman poles between floors. They also have a floor layout that encourages people to be less static, forcing them to move from office to office.
The days of chubby employees cloistered behind cubicle walls seem to be over. But, fireman poles? I don’t know how serious you could take a CEO arriving to a meeting like Batman or a stripper with an attaché case. Perhaps that’s a little too progressive?
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Healthy Body, Healthy Mind – So Crack The Whip!
Well, it always takes a study to verify what you already know. But, here’s a new one: A 2008 study from The University of Bristol concludes that employees are more productive and less stressed on days that they exercise. It’s a shame these findings weren’t circulated and implemented at Telecom France within the last year (the suicide toll has now exceeded twenty – from what psychologists say is management stress, lay offs, and “re-structuring”). So, now employees have no excuse for gathering around a donut tray in the office, but will instead be encouraged, no doubt, to make that a gluten-free bean curd cake that’s ingested between obligatory deep-knee lunges and ab-crunches. All the more reason to rush to work, eh?
Even Japan, famed for its brutal work ethic which claims so many lives there’s a word for it – Karoshi – now has regulations in place that force employees to exercise, and if you’re over forty, you’re obliged to have your waist measured. I’d imagine that probably leads to MORE SUICIDES, but nevermind.
According to a recent CNN article, health incentives are being implemented in the US (can’t imagine why?) with employees gaining insurance benefits and money through proof of fitness, currently being called “the wellness program”. Obviously it’s been recognized that the employer is ultimately winning by having less health-related problems with the staff, not least of which are sick days. This is something that progressive companies like Google have already thought of – their offices festooned with a Gym, poolroom, and fireman poles between floors. They also have a floor layout that encourages people to be less static, forcing them to move from office to office.
The days of chubby employees cloistered behind cubicle walls seem to be over. But, fireman poles? I don’t know how serious you could take a CEO arriving to a meeting like Batman or a stripper with an attaché case. Perhaps that’s a little too progressive?
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