Active Design: The key to bridging productivity and wellness
More and more companies are focusing on employee health and wellness. The drivers to do so are many such as:
· Sitting is the “new smoking”
employee health and wellness
Sitting Disease: Fiction, Fact or Hype?
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“Study: The Heavier the Employees, the Heftier the Health Care Costs”
The above title was the headline from an article that appeared on EHS Today online. The article gave an overview of a study conducted by Duke Medicine (Duke National University of Singapore) researchers that found the costs associated with medical and prescription drug claims gradually rose with each unit increase in BMI (body mass index), specifically the increases began with a BMI above 19 (A healthy or normal BMI is 19 to 24, while overweight is 25 to 29 and obese is 30 and above, i.e.