Benefits For You
- Increased productivity. DeskActive reduces lethargy, stress and boosts morale by placing an engaging focus on health, safety and wellbeing activities and advice.
- Research shows if you're healthier you're happier, less stressed and more productive.
- Quantifiable reductions in illness, lethargy and presenteeism effects (see right).
Overcoming Injuries
- DeskActive reduces workplace injuries, particularly occupational injuries like back and neck problems, RSI (repetitive strain injury), OOS (occupational overuse syndrome), and carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Reduced length and severity of injuries, brought about by early detection.
- A cost effective approach to injury rehabilitation and return-to-work, enabling remote assistance by your health provider - more efficient and effective than face-to-face assistance alone.
- Implementing DeskActive to safeguard your wellbeing protects you from loss of income due to workplace injury.
The many benefits of DeskActive make it a great investment in your health and happiness!
For a cost comparable to a single, once a year, face-to-face service (like a health assessment or ergonomic assessment), DeskActive delivers improvements in health and safety to you every day.
‘Presenteeism’ is a new term which describes the lost productivity brought about by employees that attend work, but are not functioning to their full capacity because they're suffering from some form of physical or psychological illness.
A 2007 study by MediBank Private (a major Australian health insurer) indicates that presenteeism costs organisations nearly 4 times as much as absenteeism, and furthermore a 50% reduction in presenteeism effects could increase the profit margin of an organisation by 10%.
DeskActive Makes Improving Your Workplace Health Easy!
The DeskActive system delivers tangible, quantifiable improvements in your health and safety.
The increasing focus on technology has meant that we are now less physically active during the workday than ever. Everything we need is right there on our computer screens, so there is little need to move around.
The body is designed to move, so a lack of movement leads to various health problems, both physical and psychological. These problems include different types of RSI (repetitive strain injury) or OOS (occupational overuse syndrome), musculoskeletal disorders (e.g. chronic back or neck pain) and even DVT (deep vein thrombosis). Psychological side effects include lethargy, poor motivation, low morale, inability to concentrate and even depression.
All these problems cost you. Absenteeism, presenteeism, increased workplace injuries and above all poor performance are costly repercussions of an inadequate approach to health & safety.
