Healthy Workers are More Productive
Bikes are an Investment in Your Greatest Asset - Your Employees
Bicycles are a fun and cost-effective way to help employees stay healthy and productive. Starting and maintaining an active lifestyle is a passion companies need to share with their employees. A healthy work environment improves productivity, decreases turnover and absenteeism, and reduces health-care costs. Here are some stats:
- Healthy people took 9 times fewer sick days than those with poor health
- The healthiest people were nearly 3 times more productive at work than those with poorer heath (Australasian Business Intelligence)
- Fit people make 60% fewer errors on work involving concentration and short-term memory (Swedish researcher)
- Vigorous exercise (such as cycling to work) improved mental alertness and productivity for four to five hours afterwards (New England Journal of Medicine)
- Just 3 hours of bicycling per week can reduce a person's risk of heart disease and stroke by 50% (League of American Bicyclists)
- People who exercised as infrequently as once a week reduced their average number of sick days in half-from the previous year (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine)
- Bringing bike share to your property is a great way to engage employees who don’t already include exercise as part of their daily routine.
Where to Ride?
The US has made great strides recently to improve cycling infrastructure around corporate office parks, surburban bike paths and urban streets. From dedicated bike lanes to pedestrian crossing signals, it's no doubt getting safer and easier to bike for fun and transportation.
Adding bicycles to a corporate campus offers employees an alternative to vehicles for trips between buildings, to local shopping and restaurants, or to ride just for fun.
