Healthy employees mean better financial health, companies say

MANILA, Philippines - Which company would not want their employees to remain healthy? By being healthy, it means employees are more productive, management’s health care expenses are at a minimum and ultimately, it would mean better financial health for the company.

Want to know the secret in keeping employees healthy? It’s not expensive health maintenance plans or yearly medical checkups in fancy hospitals. The answer is really crystal clear — it’s just water that is pure, clean and safe for drinking.

Why water?

Though tasteless and colorless, water is a true miracle element of nature. It helps break down nutrients and minerals so that the body can easily absorb them.

Together with oxygen, water transports these nutrients to the body’s numerous cells for better cell maintenance. It also helps eliminate toxins, regulate body temperature during hot and sunny weather, and even lubricates the joints and regulates the body’s metabolism.

Helping keep employees disease- and ailments-free is also a key role of water. Drinking at least eight to 12 glasses of water a day drives away these debilitating diseases, and even keeps that “filled” feeling in the stomach, making water an effective element of weight management.

And regardless of the kind of work people do, water keeps them alert and active for the rest of the day, enabling them to do their work in or out of the office more effectively to the delight of their employers.

But water is not just a preventive measure against physical sicknesses. Even for psychological ones — stress, for example — which is as debilitating and damaging to an employee’s overall work productivity and performance that will definitely make a dent on the company’s financial numbers, water has been proven as a useful stress reliever.

Water hydrates the body and more importantly, the brain itself, the body’s nerve center, which really needs more water than any body part we know. Lack of water in the brain may lead to poor judgment, anxiousness, apprehension, irritation and worse, even depression.

These situations may hamper the way employees work, which may lead to frequent absences and more health care costs for the company and regrettably, affect the company’s productivity. This is especially true in the manufacturing and services sectors.

A responsible and caring company should care about its employees as much as it cares about its bottom-line revenues. Numerous testimonies from company owners have already shown that keeping the workforce healthy, aside from providing fair compensation and employment benefits, makes them happy and content and therefore, more savings and better financial returns for the company.

A suggestion from Crystal Clear, a leading brand of purified drinking water in homes and offices nationwide, to keep employees hydrated is to put up drinking stations in various locations of the office.

If water is within easy reach, more employees will turn to it whenever they are thirsty or need to stay awake, and would not anymore resort to coffee, juice or sodas that will do more harm to their bodies than good.

Of course, it would be best to use Crystal Clear as their primary source of hydration. Using Crystal Clear water, which surpasses the standards of US-Grade quality of water using state-of-the-art Reverse Osmosis SLX Systems that eliminate inorganic minerals and chemicals, more employees are given assurance of pure, clean and safe drinking water for a healthier — and happier — work performance.

For more about Crystal Clear water, go to www.crystalclear.com.ph.