Corporate Wellness
The Train with Charlie Challenge is a 3 month (12 week) fitness and nutrition program that teaches you and your staff how to get fit and stay fit through exercise and nutrition counseling.
Charlie and his team will work with you to develop a program that will motivate and encourage your employees to adopt a more healthy lifestyle. Your investment in this program offers you the opporunity to have a more healthy staff, which can result in fewer missed work days and sometimes even lower health insurance premiums.
These workouts can take place at a local park or at the TWC Fitness Studio
Week 1: Initial Orientation
Week 12: Wrap Up
Nutrition presentation includes Diet Analysis, Body Composition,
Nutrition Education, Calorie Calculator, Exact Caloric Intake, What to Eat, When to Eat, Recipe Ideas, Nutrition Accountability
Week 3: Fitness Camp Begins
We will meet two or three days per week for 8 weeks for group workouts (see fitness camp page). The workouts will be located wherever is most convinient for the employees. These workouts can take place at a local park or at a gym (access to Aggieland Fitness Dome is covered through TWC).
Final wrap up, measurements, awards and motivation for moving forward!
Incentives
Many employers choose to offer monthly rewards and even an overall prize for the person (or people) who reach certain goals. This is totally dependent on your desire, but is a certain motivator for your team!
Cost of Absenteeism
To consider the benefits of such a program, consider the affect on the cost of absenteeism for a company of 150 employees.
A recent survey showed that the average rate of absenteeism on any given day is approximately 2.5% i.e. approximately 4 employees absent out of 150 total employees
The cost of a sick day is calculated as (salary + 30% employer costs) divided by 240 working days
Let's assume the average wage in our example is $40,000 per year.
The employer's average cost of a sick day is calculated as: ($40,000 + $12,000) = $217 per day divided by 240.
Let's also assume there are 4 absences a day (per the aforementioned survey):
$217 X 4 = $868 per day X 240 (working days) = approximately $208,000 per year or $1,387 per employee per year, based on 150 employees.
The average cost of absenteeism is $1,387 per employee per year.
Based on other company's previous experience with the program the anticipated reduction in absenteeism would be approximately 17.5%, amounting to savings of $243 per employee, per year.
