This website is designed for New Zealand Regional Sports Trusts and other like minded organisations or individuals to work together and share information on getting New Zealand workplaces more active more often.
Some may call these "Active workplace" programmes or "Wellness programmes", essentially this is about assisting a workplace improve or maintain a healthy and active staff.
Why bother you say! This is not some do good piece of social engineering where Sports Trusts and other organisations want to record more satistics for the "boffins" from funding agencies, but rather a genuine attempt to offer to New Zealand businesses a package of tangible programmes that:
- Provide a return on investment (ROI)
- Develop a more healthy and enjoyable work place
- Increase productive hours
- Decrease absenteeism and presenteeism ( your physically at work but your minds not - "Fridayits"
Promoting wellness reaps rewards for companies - Journal of Preventative Medicine March 05.
