Chair Massage: Cutting Worker's Compensation Costs
If you sit in one position in your cubicle during your work day you understand the aches and pains that your body begins to feel after a while. Your wrists feel tight from typing, and your lower back is killing you. You wish someone could take your head and remove it from your body for a few minutes to relieve those aches and pains that have been shooting up from your tight shoulders.
Now imagine as an employer that all your employees are feeling the same way at work. Long hours in front of the same screen day in and day out.
The problem with many jobs is that a large portion of time at work is spent in front of the computer. In many businesses that is simply the nature of the beast. However, it is important to remember that the body is made for mobility and an immobile body can cause repetitive stress injuries that are often expensive and time consuming to treat.
This becomes costly to companies, for many employees then seek worker's compensation to treat their ailments. Worker's compensation (often referred to as “worker's comp” ) is compensation that workers are able to receive for any injury that is received on the job, so almost all repetitive stress injuries apply.
Again if a large percentage of employees are hurt, this means big bills for the company for there will be many worker's compensation claims. In 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 4 million people that filed workers compensations claims for some form of injury or illness. 3.8 million (around 95%) were injury cases. Half of the cases reported required at least taking several days of from work, if not more severe rehabilitative measures.
When worker's compensation claims are filed, if the claim passes the company has to pay the employee around 2/3 of their salary for the duration of the illness. This costs companies in America millions of dollars not to mention the lost productivity time!
Yet there is a way to help prevent repetitive injury at work in turn reducing worker's compensation claims. Employees need to give their bodies a break during the work day in order to de-stress and prevent injury.
Many company's are implementing wellness programs and are putting some form of a corporate chair massage program into their regimen. Yes massage! During chair massage a therapist is able to come to the work-site and provide massage for employees.
Massages usually range from 5 – 20 minutes and allow employees to release tension, and rehab injuries that may become chronic if not given any attention. Having a massage therapist come in on a regular basis would prevent injury! In turn, regular chair massage would cut costs!
Although this takes some investment, investing in chair massage in order to have healthy employees will in the long term create more productivity because employees are healthy. This leads to lower work related insurance costs, and an increased bottom line. You will have more successful company! So take the time to bring chair massage into the work place, so that your healthy employees can take care of you!
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