Companies provide resources for stress reduction

To begin with the benefits that accrue to an organization, providing the resources to fund stress reduction and health education helps to reduce the number of sick leaves and absenteeism sought by employees. This helps to keep the productivity high, for example, since PwC Introduced health programs, it has helped reduce absenteeism by 26% and increased productivity by 18% in a span of 4 years. Employees also feel appreciated when a company takes into consideration their physical as well as mental well-being, and this will make them loyal to the organization, thus strong talent is retained, and in the long run, the productivity and other relayed effects are enhanced, for example, the employee retention at Tusker limited increased from 67% to 79% in 7 years since it introduced health programs.