Corporate Massage Offers Benefits for:
Companies | Employees |
Increases Employee Retention | Relieves Fatigue |
Improves Productivity | Lowers Anxiety & Hostility |
Enriches Corporate Culture | Enhances Creative Thinking |
Decreases Absenteeism | Improves Problem Solving |
Helps Recruit Top Talent | Strengthens Immunity |
Improves Job Satisfaction | Helps Prevent R.S.I. |
Employee Appreciation | Lowers Muscle Tension & Pain |
Improves Overall Company Health | Provides Stress Release |
Facts about massage:
Research indicates that a 15-minute chair massage results in decreased job stress, increased alertness and increased speed & accuracy on math computations. (1) |
Office workers massaged regularly were more alert, performed better and were less stressed than those who weren't massaged. (1) |
Up to 90% of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related complaints. (2) |
Stress accounts for $26 billion in medical and disability payments and $95 billion in lost productivity per year. (2) |
Over 50% of lost work days are stress related which keeps about 1 million people per day from attending work. (2) |
Health care expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report high levels of stress. (3) |
40% of job turnover is due to stress. (4) |
1. Field, Ironson, Pickens et al. (1996). Massage therapy reduces anxiety and enhances EEG pattern of alertness and math computations.International Journal of Neuroscience 86, 197-205
2.Occupational Health and Safety news and the National Council on compensation Insurance (U.S.A.)
3..Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
4. American Institute of Stress