Discovery Health's pioneering Vitality programme, which gives members rewards for pursuing a healthy lifestyle, has been expanded to offer companies the opportunity to have the good health of their employees managed by Vitality. As it was when it first became available to the individual, the Vitality programme for businesses is ground breaking, and it has been statistically proven to be so. After five years of accurately monitoring its effect (a luxury only previously available to the most affluent of companies) Discovery has the statistics to back up their claims of the improved wellness of employees.
The program is called Vitality WellPoint, and it has been proven to significantly reduce employee absenteeism and as a result increase the productivity of companies. Employees are given health goals and the extent to which they achieve these goals can be checked on-site as WellPoint will regularly measure various indicators of good health such as employees' weight and blood pressure. The more employees that are achieving their health goals, the more benefits the company will get in the form of premium reductions of up to 30%, while the employees that are Vitality members will get discounts from Pick n Pay.
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