More companies investing in employee fitness
$ 310 billion: Amount companies lose the cost of health care productivity and smoking, obesity and chronic diseases.
$ 3: Amount of a company registered in employee productivity and retention for each $ 1 invested in a wellness plan.
45 percent: United Statesemployers who offer wellness programs
72 percent: firms with 500 or more employees that offer wellness programs
Sources: Annual MetLife Employee Benefits Trends Study, National Business Group on Health, the Kaiser Family Foundation
In today's rocky economy, benefits such as bonuses heavy, lavish pensions and unlimited expense accounts are a distant memory. However, a benefit that employers appear more willing to invest in the welfare of their staff.
Corporate programs of welfare, which encourage people to take action to prevent the onset or worsening of a health and adopt healthy lifestyles, have continued to grow during recent years, the study found annual MetLife Employee Benefits trends.
Almost half of employers offer such programs, almost double the number in 2005. Among companies with 500 employees or more, the number jumps to 75 percent.
"Some companies can not afford to give merit increases as they did in the past, but they always want to do the right thing and take care of their employees, so they offer them a program of wellness" said Quan Campbell, president of San Diego-based Life Wellness Institute, which designs programs wellness business.
Not only the well-being programs to improve employee health, but also to increase productivity while saving money from the company.
Studies have shown that for every $1 a company puts into corporate wellness programs, $3 is saved through decreased sick days, increased worker productivity and employee retention, according to the National Business Group on Health in Washington, D.C.
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Philanthropic entrepreneur leaves behind a legacy of innovation ...
A businessman from Grand Junction and philanthropist who founded a company manufacturing instruments and supported a variety of community causes is dead.
Bruce Dixson leaves behind a legacy of innovation and to give. Dixon died on October 24. He was 93.
Dixson was the founder and majority owner of a manufacturing company that bore his name. The company has made instruments for the automotive, electrical meters and other equipment used in trucks, buses and heavy equipment. The company also lucite gifts and products for the healthcare industry.
At the time it was sold in 1987, Dixson Incemployed over 450 people working in schools on Orchard Mesa and downtown Grand Junction.
Instrumentation and Controls Specialty Ametek Dixson Inc acquired in 1995 and renamed the company Ametek-Dixson. The company continues to manufacture instruments equipment at the factory Orchard Mesa for companies such as Caterpillar, Freightliner and Kenworth.
Dixson founded his company in Washington after the design of ways to simplify the installation of automobile speedometers with a system that allowed a single model to be installed on a variety of vehicles. He moved the operation to Grand Junction in 1963.
He grew up in the South and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1939. He has designed for agricultural equipment Allis Chalmers and then worked for Sperry Gyroscope and Boeing.
Dixson held more than a dozen patents, ranging from improving the performance of devices in aircraft gyroscopes filtering devices from dust and odors from the ventilation systems of the automobile.
In addition to its role as a businessman, Dixson was a philanthropist who supported a variety of causes, not only with his money but his time and management expertise.