Study Snapshot: Body-Brain Performance Institute & Swinburne University’s Brain Sciences Institute

Study: Monitoring 40 employees from Melbourne software company SAP in 2011.

The trial, which ran from April to June, found a direct link between physical fitness and work participation, with productivity increases calculated at $2,500 per year per employee.

Study Snapshot: National Workplace Health Index

Study: A 2011 National Workplace Health Index found that health initiatives at work are important to employees:

• 79.5% of respondents said they would rather be employed by an organisation that provides healthy living programs and/or support.
• 87.2% of respondents declared their workplace to be of only average health or pretty poor.
• 83.5% said their overall health and wellbeing is only “okay” or “could be improved”.

Study Snapshot: Worksafe Victoria

Study: Worksafe study of 400,000 WorkHealth checks in Victoria (printed 2012).

• 95 % of the financial industry are not eating enough fruit.
• 72% are not doing enough exercise.
• 25 % of men tested are at high risk of Diabetes Type 2 – a life threatening but preventable disease.