Employees with a healthy work life balance are key to a successfull business. Rip works with companies to improve the work life balance, through exercise and relaxation techniques.

It is accepted, that employers must encourage and provide resources for an employee to address the work life balance.

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Business Benefits of improving staff health
Exercise and conditioning are proven to:

1. reduce staff absenteeism

2. increase productivity

3. increase staff morale

4. reduce repetitive strain syndrome

5. attraction of new staff

6. retention of existing staff

Rip Services:

Rip works with the client to develop a "Health Care Pathway" within the company, providing a bespoke health and fitness solution, that varies according to the needs of the employees. Examples of services developed and implementated:

• onsite classes in exercise, nutrition and relaxation techniques
• regular assessment centre days on site; testing cholestrol, BMI, body fat
• monthly magazine on health and fitness topics
• interactice online trainer
• "ask the trainer" email facility
• company health web sites
• podcasts

Rip can provide health, nutrition & exercise services through a variety of mediums for less than €1 per employee, per year.

In the UK, over 33 million working days are lost to ill health each year with a cost to employers of £12.2 billion – more than 16 per cent of the payroll. Obesity, meanwhile, results in 18 million sick days a year.

Case Study 1:

"Transport for London" researched extensively the strong negative correlation of Physical Activity on Productivity and Absenteeism

Key findings:

1. evidence from over 90% of relevant studies suggests that workplace exercise intervention programmes can lead to long term increases in physical activity and reductions in absenteeism. The studies also suggest that where physical activity is increased by more than one hour per week, absentee days may be reduced in the long term, with the most successful studies reporting reductions of 33 per cent to 50 per cent.

2. Evidence from two studies to suggest that physical activity levels affect both short term (up to 12 months) and long term (more than 12 months) health care costs, including people who are obeses and living sedentary lives.

London Transport "Physical-activity-absenteeism-and-productivity Report"

Case Study 2:

Nuffield Proactive Health conducted a 10-month study into a team of 260 employees at Cadbury Trebor Bassett who were working on a global IT project.

An employee health programme, which included banning lunch at desks; changing diet and posture; introducing healthy eating and lunchtime exercise; and health monitoring resulted in 58 per cent of participants increasing their level of exercise, while body fat across the group fell by 5 per cent.

More than half felt less stressed at the end of the programme, around 70 per cent achieved a better work-life balance and a similar number felt more positive about their employer – all scenarios which boost productivity.