The Return on Investment

40% of turnover is due to stress.

Profitability increases by 2% for every 1% reduction in turnover.

22% of group health insurance costs are stress related, with annual expenditures of nearly $400 billion.

Heart patients who attend stress management programs have 42% lower health care costs.

Other studies have documented 50% reduction in medical services utilization in companies that offer stress reduction.

33% of Workers Compensation costs is attributed to stress.

Subjects who reported stress at age 23 were 2.5 times more likely to report back pain at 33 than subjects who did report stress at age 23.

Under low stress conditions, subjects reported no back pain and the pattern of EMG activity indicated no spinal strain; under high stress conditions however, subjects did complain of back pain and exhibited an aberrant EMG pattern consistent with spinal strain.

A major survey of 333 Human Resource executives in US companies found that 12% of absences from work are attributable to stress.

This translates into 1 million people out of work every day in America due to stress.

The persistent and costly issue of absenteeism costs small companies, on average, $60,000 per year and larger companies approximately $3,600,000 per year.