"If we really want a healthy, productive and vibrant Australia, the workplace has to be the new frontier. Promoting good physical and mental health in the workplace is a positive for everyone – employers, employees, the unions and the shareholders."
Professor Rob Moodie
Professor of Global Health, Nossal Institute of Global Health
Partner with us for a healthier and more productive workforce
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Imagine what your workforce could achieve in terms of productivity, cost savings and better health through individual and team based activity.
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Research shows that:
For every dollar an employee spends on medical costs and pharmaceuticals, businesses incur a health related productivity loss amounting to $2.30. *
Approximately 3.2 days per worker per annum are lost through workplace stress, costing employers $10.11 billion, and the Australian economy $14.81 billion annually.*
Recent research conducted by Monash University titled “The effect on absenteeism and cost savings from a workplace pedometer-based intervention:
Australian Model”, involving 200 participants and 200 non participants shows:
1.Non participants took 287 more sick days during the four month event - a difference of 36.1%.
2.Non participants took 175 more sick days in the two months and 12 days after the event - a difference of 52.6%.
3.Non participants took 462 more sick days in six months and 12 days - a difference of 41%.
*Medibank Private, The Cost of Workplace Stress in Australia, 2008.
For more information please contact:
Joseph Herschel, Manager - Corporate Partnerships, Westmead Medical Research Foundation.
Email
j.herschel@usyd.edu.au
Phone 02 9845 9724
Current Partners & Sponsors
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Antipodeans Abroad – our Move for a Cure partner
Antipodeans Abroad is a pioneer in the field of educational travel and a leading provider of charity challenges. Antipodeans Abroad offers unique travel programs with one aim – broadening the horizons of all travellers through adventure and challenge. We create innovative, high quality and great value experiences whilst providing superior service and support.
We are proud to be an Australian company, fully owned and based in Australia since 1991. We understand Australian schools, universities and charities. Antipodeans Abroad guides lead our trips, and we provide a comprehensive pre-departure Risk Management service for all trips with 24-hour back up and assistance from our Sydney headquarters while groups are traveling.
These are not packaged holidays, but individually structured and professionally supervised travel programs ensuring a safe and memorable experience. These are once-in-a-lifetime journeys so pack a spirit of adventure, as you swap the comfort of home for the excitement of a distant land. The world is waiting for you. If life is about seizing opportunities, this is one of them.