A study in the Journal of Environmental Medicine suggests that respiratory illness alone can cost as much as $134 per employee per year. Multiply that by the number of employees at your company and you can see just how expensive those germs can be.
This doesn't even include the cost of other illnesses caused by germs transmitted by hands like e.coli, staph and salmonella.
CONSIDER YOUR COSTS AND THE BENEFITS OF A WELLNESS PROGRAMEnter your information for calculation below.
This exercise is not intended to imply that using PURELL in the workplace will reduce the incidence of respiratory illness in your facility.
Real or perceived, people believe the handle on the restroom door to be unclean.
As a result, they use paper towels to open the door and then throw them on the floor.
How would you like to increase productivity and wellness? An outcome study at FedEx Custom Critical showed absenteeism rates due to illness were reduced by 21%. This translates to 31 work days saved per every 100 employees per year.1
1. Number of Day Reductions: Assume 240 work days in a year (52 weeks - w weeks for h holidays - 2 weeks vacation = 48 weeks x 5 working days per week) and assume 100 employees: 100 employees x 0.0062 absence days per 100 worker days x 21% reduction in the number of days absent. FedEx Custom Critical Outcome Study Executive Update: Interim Report, July 27, 2004, (unpublished) GOJO Industries, Inc., 90.3% confidence interval.
