Economic Sustainability and its Contribution to the Bottom Line
Economic sustainability involves the decisions companies make that protect the health and well-being of their people. GOJO® hand soaps and PURELL® hand sanitisers are part of a good hand hygiene program to help safeguard workers and contribute to productivity – and that can lower the cost of doing business. Here's what we mean:
The cost of health-related lost productivity to employers is $1,685 per employee, or about $225.9 billion annually.1 That includes the financial impact of employee absenteeism as well as the more hidden cost of presenteeism – when sick employees show up, but too under-the-weather to accomplish much, except to infect others.
A study in the Journal of Environmental Medicine suggests that respiratory illness alone can cost as much as $134 per employee per year2. This doesn't even include the cost of other illnesses caused by germs transmitted by hands such as e.coli, staph, and salmonella.
When GOJO hand hygiene and skin care products effectively fight germs in the workplace, the result is economic sustainability at work. Good hand hygiene helps maintain the health, well-being and productivity of employees while contributing to the bottom line of businesses.