A Midwest utility company learned firsthand that it pays to keep healthy employees fit, reaping a net savings of $4.8 million in employee health and lost work time costs over nine years.     Read more 

Workplace engagement involves the degree to which people put in discretionary effort and care into their job. Up until now, research on engagement has focused mostly on the degree to which engagement impacts organizational performance (Conference Board, 2006). Also, there has been research into the way engagement varies across different organizations and different countries(Gallup, N.D.) However, no research has been done to identify the underpinning neurological drivers of engagement, it’s effects on various brain networks, and how we might measure engagement more objectively through neural or biological markers.    Read more 

The above 4 researchers wanted to know if using pedometers to increase people’s physical activity actually works? They also wanted to know if the goal of 10,000 steps a day is better than just having people wear pedometers with no step goal.     Read more 

Four common bad habits combined - smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet - can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests.     Read more 

The Ministry of Health commissioned a literature review on Workplace Health Promotion programmes to support the development of NZ Well@Work.    Read more 

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