Small companies tend to do the best job of taking care of corporate wellness. When several people work together in a confined space, a good manager is responsible for their wellness and wellbeing, and will be able to oversee the general health of the team. In small offices, when workers often share the same physical workspace and communal areas (such as telephones, keyboards, light switches and door knobs, it is especially important to safeguard the whole team against any kind of illness.
If an employee comes in sick, they should be sent home straight away. Many employees feel guilty or worried about taking time off sick but it is actually far less helpful to come into work when you are sick, as you then spread your illness to the rest of the team (especially if working in a confined space as described above) and this then affects productivity over the whole company. In addition to this, your colleagues do not want to get sick, and may have young families and other responsibilities themselves. Small companies are often good in this sense, as they can keep tabs on everyone and there is nobody sitting behind a desk, unnoticed, who is really not well enough to be there.
Corporate wellness has become a serious issue in recent years, and corporate wellness programmes have been rolled out over many larger companies. Wellness programmes often include flu shots, help with smoking cessation, advice about nutrition, and incentives for weight loss or exercise.
One large tech company has even gone a step further, and introduced a health centres right inside their office premises. Here, their employees can get immunisations, drug prescriptions, blood tests, annual exams and other minor medical treatments. All employees can access the service on a company health plan and it is hoped that the service will soon be extended to their dependents, too.
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