A slim and healthy workforce is more likely to be a happy and positive workforce

If you are the boss of a company you should take the time to look around your office to see whether you are promoting a healthy environment which could have a big impact on the productivity of your employees and ultimately your profits.

Overweight employees are much more likely to call in sick and some studies have shown that you could boost productivity by as much as twelve percent if all your staff are 100 percent healthy and fit. A slim and healthy workforce is also more likely to be a happy and positive workforce.

You might want to become the popular boss by buying lots of chocolates and sweets to put in the office kitchen but you may actually just be setting up your employees to temptation which will make them put on weight as well as distract them from their work.

You should take the lead in promoting a healthy environment and you can do this in a number of simple ways such as getting fresh fruit for the office, buying green tea instead of fattening cappuccinos. If your office has a canteen you can start by getting rid of all the fried food and putting lots of healthy options on the menu. This is likely to have a huge impact on the weight of your employees and they will thank you for it!

How about sponsoring gym membership for your work force and maybe even setting up an office competition for rowing or running to foster a little bit of healthy rivalry?  According to a University of Michigan professor, Dee Edington spending money on health incentives for your employees is a fantastic investment which could reap returns of 300 percent. [We don't know how he worked this one out but having good health is always a good investment!]

You could even go one step further by offering small financial rewards for employee weight loss.  If your employees think that you care about them they are much more likely to go the extra mile and do that extra bit of work for you which ultimately will turn into extra profits!