Workforce Wellness

Employers and Employees have a common interest in worker health.  Employees want to be healthy, productive, and able to be physically able to stay at a job to earn a living for themselves and their families.  Employers, meanwhile, want employees who are healthy and productive, thereby avoiding slowdowns in work or loss of productivity from illness, absence, lack of focus, or having to rehire and retrain a workforce that cannot be consistently present. In many developing countries, in particular, large employers often provide health clinics for their workers. Adding advanced nutritional supplements or fortified foods to the health and wellness regime for workers leverages the capacity of the employer and, often, an existing delivery system.

The field trial will work with interested employers and carefully document the absences, illness, ad overall productivity of employees who receive nutritional supplements compared to those who do not. Of interest here not only the wellness outcomes for employees, but also whether the savings from increased productivity pay for the cost of wellness services, including full nutrition, for workers and for their families.