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Employee health a competitive advantage?

While a direct cause and effect between a healthy workforce and superior share price returns is difficult to establish, there is growing evidence that the two are in some way correlated.

By Katie Kuehner-Hebert | Updated on November 06, 2017
A recent whitepaper from UBS Wealth Management white paper suggests that healthier employees improves a company's performance. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Want to be more competitive? Then make sure your employees are as healthy as they can be, according to the UBS Wealth Management white paper, “Corporate Health: The changing role of companies.”

“Companies should embrace the vision underlying corporate health – that a firm’s health is inextricably linked to the health of its employees,” the authors write. “Under this approach, it becomes apparent that employee health is not so much a cost for a firm as a potential compet­itive advantage.”

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.

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