According to The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, for every 100 employees nationwide:

• 60 are sedentary
  
• 25 smoke
  
• 20 are obese
  
• 27 have cardiovascular disease
  
• 10 have diabetes
  
• 50 have high cholesterol
  
• 24 have high blood pressure
  
• 50 are distressed or depressed
  

A comprehensive employee wellness program can change these numbers! A meta-evaluation** of worksite health promotion economic return found an: 

• Average 27% reduction in sick leave absenteeism
  
• Average 26% reduction in health costs
  
• Average 32% reduction in workers' compensation and disability management claims costs
  
• Average $5.81-to-$1 savings-to-cost ratio
  

**Chapman L.S.: Meta-evaluation of worksite health promotion economic return studies: 2005 Update. Am J Health Promotion. 2005 Jul-Aug;19(6):1-11. 

Want more proof? Check out this document from the White House summarizing the positive impact of companies like Safeway, Johnson & Johnson, REI and Microsoft using employee wellness programs as an innovative workplace practice!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Fact-Sheet-Innovative-Workplace-Practices-A-Discussion-With-President-Obama/